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Recent attacks on farmers were deeply unfair, says the Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy.

Farmers in the Kerikeri region have been asked to assist in the Ministry for Primary Industries myrtle rust response.

A recently announced grant from MPI’s Sustainable Farming Fund will pay for the next stage of a biological control project aimed at the invasive weed field horsetail.

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) is satisfied with both the sheep and beef industries’ approaches to breeding with respect to animal welfare issues.

The authenticity of manuka honey exported from New Zealand is to be settled once and for all.

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy is welcoming new figures forecasting that primary exports will reach $37.5 billion for the year ending June 2017.

A fouled vessel carrying PKE, ordered by MPI to leave Tauranga on March 6, has been allowed to return after divers cleaned it outside New Zealand waters.

Almost $1 million will go to projects aimed at combating animal diseases from the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Sustainable Farming Fund.

With modern technology your farm’s customers are only a smartphone call away, Primary Industry Minister Nathan Guy says.

An OECD report missed a critical point in claiming NZ is reaching its environmental limits and criticising the government’s primary export targets.