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Taranaki Regional Council and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) have joined forces to identify the pathways by which new pest plants could enter the region, whether by road, rail, coast or air.

OPINION: New Zealand farmers have earned the right to be recognised as true world leaders in agricultural innovation.

Farmers, foresters and orchardists have just a few days left to complete the official agricultural production census, run by Statistics NZ in partnership with MPI.

The annual funding round for the Ministry for Primary Industries’ (MPI’s) Greenhouse Gas Inventory Research fund has opened, with $2.1 million on offer.

A Canterbury farmer has been disqualified from owning calves and fined $26,000 following the death of a large number of calves he was raising.

A proposed Dairy Cattle Code of Welfare is highly prescriptive and dictates what a farmer must do, rather than having an outcome that will need to be met, says Federated Farmers.

Investing in precision agriculture has provided North Canterbury farmer Roscoe Taggart with benefits - environmental, social and financial.

Christchurch-based Agritech company, Onside, has secured a $4 million grant from MPI to help develop biosecurity technology, which it claims can effectively predict where biosecurity incursions are likely to occur.

A two-year project will help identify how New Zealand's apiculture sector sector can achieve sustainable growth.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says that through a new Government-backed programme New Zealand’s apple and pear industry is aiming to become sprayfree by 2050.