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A message to dairy farmers - be patient with China and things will come right.

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) investigations into the outbreak of a single case of Mycoplasma bovis on a Canterbury dairy farm are continuing.

Hawke's Bay and Tairawhiti apple and pear growers hit by Cyclone Gabrielle are getting extra help to prepare their orchards for the coming season.

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) staff have ramped up testing procedures and investigations in an effort to determine how a dairy herd in the Selwyn district of Canterbury contracted Mycoplasma bovis.

A Pukekohe deer farmer has been fined $12,000 for not tagging 278 animals under the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme.

OPINION: The Hound notes that the Taxpayers’ Union recently revealed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) spent more than $125,000 for its presence at this year’s Mystery Creek Fieldays.

Consumers in the future may want produce that they perceive is designed especially for them.

There has been much commentary about China with concerns about how Covid lockdowns there have dented consumer confidence, driving down consumer spending.

On the farm, bobby calves must be given the same degree of care as every other calf on the farm.

OPINION: Sobering is perhaps the best word to describe the latest Situation and Outlook report on Primary Industries (SOPI) produced by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).