Govt considers fund for biosecurity threats
Farmers could be asked to contribute to a new fund for biosecurity threats.
Farmers could be asked to contribute to a new fund for biosecurity threats.
Myrtle rust has reached Feilding, Hawera and Palmerston North. Now it's in Whanganui.
COMMENT: Taxpayer bailout undeserved after rural misuse of the Nait scheme.
COMMENT: Farmers should have acted sooner but MPI should have too.
Myrtle rust has been discovered in Northland, prompting pleas from biosecurity officials.
The Whanganui-Castlecliff rail line is seeing increasing loads of exports and imports.
Fly-overs reveal hundreds of new sites possibly infected with kauri dieback disease.
More than 8000 vehicles have been sent back from Auckland's port due to a stinky problem
Myrtle rust has spread south and an ecologist says its incursion is a hard lesson for NZ.
Officials are intercepting more brown marmorated stink bugs and we should all be worried.
Fungus can adversely affect myrtle species, including pohutukawa, manuka and kanuka.
COMMENT: Divert some defence money to fighting stink bugs, argues Brian Rudman.
Invasive 'stink bug' a real threat to fruit, says New Zealand Apples and Pear chief.
Far North boaties and cray fishers asked to help stop highly invasive kelp spreading.
Virus will be pitted against pathogen in a new effort to help our hard-working honeybees.
EDITORIAL: Valuable primary sector requires protection, at border and inside farm gate.
It may be impossible to defeat a pathogen threatening several cherished native species.
Council to consider closing the Waitakere Ranges to visitors over kauri-killing disease.
Kiwifruit growers say Psa ruined lives and the Government needs to take responsibility.
COMMENT: NZ is importing mud from South Korea where foot and mouth disease has occurred.
COMMENT: Cultural gap between rural and urban life grows as we remain economically tied.
Kiwifruit farmers devastated by 2012 PSA-V outbreak to have their day in court.
Climbing Spindle Berry, which kills other plants, has been spotted in two locations.
We asked the Ministry of Primary Industries official heading the response.
Officials are scrambling to gather seeds of 33 native plant species in Myrtle Rust's path.
Rabbits have proven an unlikely ally to another bothersome pest: venomous redback spiders.
It was only a matter of time before a devastating fungal disease arrived in New Zealand
Biosecurity teams in Kerikeri are trying to contain the fungal plant disease myrtle rust.
Many native plant species are under threat after myrtle rust disease is detected in NZ.
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