Biosecurity

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.

Vigilance is key if we want to escape the trauma and cost of an outbreak in NZ.

The ban will not affect commercial products, which face strict import standards.

Farmers urged to step up biosecurity and record keeping as disease breaks out in Indonesia, and signs detected in Australia.

Outbreak in Bali prompts ‘refresh’ of preventative measures to ensure disease is kept out.

Australia’s strict biosecurity measures have been pivotal in ensuring the country has remained mite-free and its current containment efforts are centred around eradication.

A campaign is being launched to make sure travellers do their part to protect farmers from foot-and-mouth disease…

A Mid-Canterbury dairy property has become the first to be confirmed with Mycoplasma bovis this year. The infection…

The news that there is a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Indonesia is disconcerting.  Although it…

Farmers and landowners in the Rotorua region are ramping up efforts to control a long-time wallaby population that…

Farmers are being urged to review their biosecurity practices while moving their animals on Moving Day.  M bovis…

Who am I? John Roche is the chief science adviser at the Ministry for Primary Industries.

In coming weeks biosecurity officials will be doubling down on efforts to identify if the fall army worm has established itself further in the upper North Island. 

Biosecurity New Zealand is closely monitoring reports of a Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Indonesia, deputy director-general Stuart Anderson says. 

The Government has announced funding of $42.9 million to bolster New Zealand’s biosecurity system as part of Budget 2022 and $68m over the next year for M bovis eradication.

Biosecurity NZ says the new import health standard was issued on August 25, with an eight-month delay on implementation.

Biosecurity New Zealand and primary sector partners are urging maize and corn growers to keep a close eye out for a crop-killing moth pest with potential to cost cropping farmers millions of dollars.

New Zealand pig farmers are being urged to have their say on a proposal to sign an agreement with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to help protect the sector in the event of a biosecurity incursion.

Despite the slump in passenger arrivals relieving some pressure on airport biosecurity staff, consistently high freight volumes have prompted a reallocation of MPI’s border resources amid new import threats.

Despite the covid pandemic delivering a new set of challenges for the Mycoplasma bovis eradication plan, the programme has continued to commit to the study and research of the disease.

Duncan Barr was struck with M bovis on his Mid Canterbury farm in 2018 and says he has no more confidence in bureaucratic management now than he did four years ago.