I want to relate a true story. A couple of weeks ago we met a South Island dairy farmer that had been caught up in the M. Bovis response. We spoke about what this had meant for him and his business – none of it good other than that he was now able to get […]
“Farm biosecurity is not only a farmers responsibility, but of every person visiting or working on the property. If a new pest or disease becomes established on farms, it affects business through increased costs (for monitoring, production practices, additional chemical use and labour), reduced productivity (in yield and/or quality) or, importantly, loss of markets. ” […]
It was awesome news that MPI in its stakeholder update last week, effectively ruled out effluent as a transmission vector for M. Bovis – that’s one less disease transmitted in poo (lets not forget there are other diseases that can be). It was also good to see MPI reiterate the general hygiene message and for […]
Don’t read this article if you’re the fearful type as this article appearing on the www.aspistrategist.org.au website will give you bad dreams. It points out that both state sposored and non-state sponsored actors could relatively easily use a biosecurity incident to disrupt a national economy. If you’re looking for an example of this you need look […]
Thank you Vicki Jones of Dugmore Jones for this story about Jacson3 that featured on the Waikato Story (www.waikatostory.nz) website in May. Read the full story at https://www.waikatostory.nz/blog/waikato-start-up-helping-reduce-the-spread-of-disease-and-weeds-on-farm
This is one of those ‘in a nutshell’ type articles that appear on Stuff.co.nz sometimes – short, succinct and on point. Takeaways messages are – Biosecurity is much more than just M. Bovis and will be important long after M. Bovis runs its course, involve farm staff in making your plan, one of the easiest […]
This Statement provides the direction New Zealand’s biosecurity systems need to take in the next 10 years to make it more resilient and future-focused. Visit the Biosecurity 2025 website to find out more about the Statement, its five strategic directions and five workplans, the groups involved, signing up for the latest biosecurity news and to […]