Biosecurity

NZ can play a much stronger leadership role in managing biosecurity risks in the Pacific.

It will aim to develop a novel, integrated aerobiological surveillance and prediction system to manage aerial pest movement. 

No infected farms in NZ as mammoth effort reaches halfway mark.

Interconnected system needed for NZ’s biosecurity future.

Agency’s spider senses tingling as borders open and passenger arrivals climb.

Entries open for 2023 New Zealand Biosecurity Awards.

As a precaution, farmers should ask their semen supplier about what testing has been performed.

Fall armyworm efforts move to long-term management.

The review was commissioned by the programme’s partners, MPI, DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb New Zealand, in mid-2022.

If left unchecked, by 2025 wallabies would cost New Zealanders around $84 million a year in damage.

OSPRI said about 1% of cattle arriving at meat processors over the past year were untagged when they were expected to be tagged.

New Confirmed Properties total as three-millionth test done.

The Explorer G3 workstation is designed to test up to 7000 samples a day for antibodies to FMD and other exotic diseases.

Country’s biggest commercial cattle feedlot in final stage of disinfection.

Fruit fly surveillance ramps up ahead of high-risk season and increased global activity.

The policy affects the identification and management of biodiversity on public, private and Māori land.

Scentian Bio has developed sensor technology that mimics insects’ smell receptors.

Funding announced for research into the invasive pest plant.

Cupful of water all it takes to find invasive pest species.

Property movement has been restricted since August.

Hunters warned not to relocate animals to new areas.

Testing stepped up after Mid Canterbury discovery.

There are four confirmed properties in Mid Canterbury at present.

NZ firms join forces to develop a biosecurity early warning system.

Eight farms in Mid Canterbury affected.

Plan to cut programme to less than half current budget, potentially undoing years of work

Property in Mid Canterbury identified through routine testing.

Farmers urged to register with MyOSPRI.

Agriculture ministers discuss joint efforts to reduce biosecurity risks.

Biosecurity protocols fall down as farmer waved through checks after Bali trip.

More than 100 top international researchers and stakeholders brought together to consider co-ordinated global response to biosecurity threats facing the natural world.

Any foot-and-mouth outbreak in NZ would meet a veterinary and on-farm force with five years’ experience in dealing with a biosecurity incursion.

For the first time in its history, survey records net negative production expectations for coming year

Threats to national herd mitigated by long-term planning by Livestock Improvement Corp.

Individual tracking will be key if FMD crosses from Indonesia, says NSW.

Cargo containers examined as NZ ramps up anti-FMD measures.