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Primary sector education and exciting career opportunities will be showcased at the Fieldays Opportunity Grows Here Careers Hub next month.

A Canterbury farmer has been found responsible for the death of 610 calves she was raising, following a successful prosecution by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

OPINION: The Ministry for Primary Industries' frontline staff are vital to our work supporting the food and fibre sector and I'm proud of our team's efforts.

OPINION: Cyclone Gabrielle has been one of the biggest challenges farmers and growers in affected regions have faced in my lifetime and for one of the districts I am working in, Tararua, this is no exception.

A rapid antigen test (RAT) aimed at early detection of facial eczema (FE) in ruminants may help manage a disease that costs the New Zealand economy millions of dollars each year.

OPINION: As soon as the ‘pen hit the paper’ this column quickly morphed into a ‘Dear John letter’.

A Levin farmer found responsible for the deaths of 29 cattle has been fined $32,000.

A rapid antigen test (RAT) aimed at early detection of facial eczema (FE) in ruminants may help manage a disease that costs the New Zealand economy millions of dollars each year.

MPI’s Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund will invest over $35,000 in a project with Tokaora Diagnostics to develop a prototype facial eczema (FE) rapid antigen test (RAT) and undertake field testing.

Some of the world's major food companies are demanding even more severe environmental targets than New Zealand has provision for in its own climate change legislation.