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A second green revolution is needed - and the answer includes genetic technologies.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has laid charges against an individual in relation to an investigation into animal welfare offences involving bobby calves.

MPI is running a special public information campaign to alert people, especially around ports, to watch for the brown marmorated stink bug.

The eight organisations that formed a Bobby Calf Action Group at the end of 2015 are well advanced on a range of initiatives ensuring best practice handling and management of bobby calves.

The Ministry of Primary Industries has begun an advertising campaign encouraging people to let it know if they come across the mis-treatment of livestock.

MPI is asking farmers and growers of arable crops to look out for a highly invasive pest weed that has appeared on a handful of South Island properties.

The avocado industry has become the seventh industry partner to join the Government Industry Agreement (GIA) biosecurity partnership.

New measures to improve the management of New Zealand's rivers, lakes, aquifers and wetlands have been proposed at the Bluegreens Forum in Tekapo on Saturday.

A significant lift in strong wool prices is the main aim of a newly announced industry and Government-backed research project.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has completed its response to the find of a single Tau fly in an Auckland suburb; no more of the flies found.