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OSPRI has suspended possum control operations in support of its TBfree disease eradication programme during the COVID-19 lockdown.

MPI is wanting to provide guidance around potential contracts signed by small forest owners – many of whom are farm foresters.

MPI has received hundreds of calls from businesses in the food and beverage sectoring wanting to ensure that they are correctly complying with COVID-19 requirements.

MPI boss Ray Smith has appealed to all those involved in food and beverage processing to be meticulous about hygiene.

MPI’s new head of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme has some good news for the fight against the disease. 

Primary food production is in business. But it’s not business as usual – as we used to know it.

With the closure of saleyards under Alert 4, New Zealand’s virtual saleyard bidr says it will be an essential tool for the trading of livestock during lockdown.

MPI director general Ray Smith has praised the country’s farming leaders for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Farmers are being urged to act now in response to new COVID-19 protocols for processing companies that will impact processing capacity.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) says door-to-door, local fruit and vegetable box deliveries can go ahead under COVID-19 Alert Level 4 restrictions.