Farmers are frustrated as they await results from cattle being tested for Mycoplasma bovis

Fresh Meats NZ says live-streamed video of sheep slaughter does not show animal cruelty.

COMMENT: NZ is importing mud from South Korea where foot and mouth disease has occurred.

NZ's fishermen are being urged to embrace a licensing fee, but Government isn't biting.

The disease does not infect humans and presents no food safety risk.

St Pierre's Sushi wants to let customers put sushi in their own lunchboxes to save waste.

Commercial fishers to phase in digital monitoring from October.

Green groups say a sea lion rescue plan fails to address threats by commercial fishing.

A young teenage girl was seen drowning live joeys in a bucket at a school possum hunt.

Researchers have found 'nationally significant' marine habitats at Kapiti Island.

Kiwifruit farmers devastated by 2012 PSA-V outbreak to have their day in court.

Colder temperatures may mean myrtle rust might not survive long if it reaches Wellington.

Scientists launch a $1.4 million project to help combat deadly fungal disease.

Cull of Stewart Island oysters begins three weeks after parasite found.

A scathing critique of MPI and NZ fisheries has been published in a science journal.

Dairy farmers won't have to pay for their climate pollution yet, the Govt says.

The company's director was fined so the judge could send a message to other directors.

OANZ says $50m organic produce industry needs a national framework to expand further.

The chef told biosecurity officers he wanted to give the duck meat to his son.

Gold rush is gone, but industry is celebrating signs of recovery, writes Holly Ryan.

News snippets from around Northland

MPI has told company backed by NZ athletes to add more sugar or stop selling sport drink.

Budget allocation "scratches the surface" of what's needed for climate target, group says.

Twenty properties around New Zealand are now infected with myrtle rust.

Greens say the Budget's environment and conservation funding is far below what's needed.

Fresh crow and squirrel legs and feathers sniffed out at the border by biosecurity dog.

Myrtle rust has been detected at a nursery in the Waikato town of Te Kuiti.

The primary sector has biosecurity and trade training on its wish list for the Budget.

Waikato company fined after goats arrived at meatworks with significant injuries.

Two more rare NZ sea lions have been killed in squid trawl nets in the Auckland Islands.