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'Defend the shed' - how the poultry industry has been preparing for a bird flu outbreak
8 Dec 2024How are chicken and egg farms protecting themselves from avian flu? Country Life visited a broiler chicken farm to find out what good biosecurity practice involves.
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We're not out of woods yet with bird flu, expert warns
6 Dec 2024It can take up to three weeks for birds to start showing signs of disease, Professor Jemma Geoghegan says.
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Agreement reached with Australia to restart chicken exports
6 Dec 2024Meanwhile, officials now believe an existing disease, not bird flu, killed chickens at a small free range.
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Bird flu: MPI confident it has resources if outbreak becomes more widespread
5 Dec 2024A biologist says she will not be surprised if the "highly contagious" disease spreads to other poultry farms. Audio
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Farmers hopeful for cattle river grazing renewals
5 Dec 2024But conservation groups have long opposed the practice of allowing cattle in the braided river valleys.
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Bird flu: No known connection between first and second farm
Officials have not yet found any links between a second chicken farm that has been isolated, and a poultry farm where bird flu has been identified. Audio
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Government announces sweeping changes to limit forestry conversions
Farming groups and rural communities have been raising concerns over forestry conversions for years.
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'Beyond disappointing': Kāinga Ora rejects wool carpet
4 Dec 2024The minister in charge of wool says it's frustrating government departments aren't listening.
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'It was a long process getting the farms clean' - Australian farmer hit by bird flu
3 Dec 2024An Australian egg producer hit by bird flu warns NZ farmers it's likely to take months to get birds back on the farm and laying. Audio
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'No major impact on egg supplies' as hen culling to begin
3 Dec 2024New Zealand has about 3.9 million layer hens a year, Biosecurity NZ says.
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Months of getting prepared for highly pathogenic avian flu
3 Dec 2024Since a deadly strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, started circulating around the world, New Zealand government officials have been preparing for its arrival.
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'Treating it like playing with Lego': Criticism of Government's plan for fewer trees on farms
5 Dec 2024The Forestry Owners Association says they're trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist and are using a blunt tool to do so.
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Bird flu outbreak: Don't eat raw eggs, experts warn
3 Dec 2024It's important eggs aren't eaten raw - they need to be properly cooked, as part of food safety measures, MPI says.
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All poultry exports on hold until highly pathogenic bird flu eradicated
2 Dec 2024The Biosecurity Minister has also confirmed the farm at the centre of the outbreak had an outbreak of another virus in 2019. Audio
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Watch: Country's first case of high pathogenic bird flu
2 Dec 2024There are 40,000 chickens inside the shed where the high pathogenic bird flu has been identified.
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Could biochar be the wonder product for forestry and farming?
30 Nov 2024A large farm and forestry operation in the Far North is keen to turn its slash from upcoming harvests into something that benefits the land, climate and stock.
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Ditching the lawn mower and other curious ways to grow great tomatoes
29 Nov 2024Meet Anthony and Angela Tringham, of Curious Croppers, the couple growing heirloom tomatoes using agroecology principles.
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Trug-making almost a lost art
30 Nov 2024Tony Hitchcock has been crafting trugs - wooden garden baskets - for several years using untreated willow or hazel and poplar sourced locally from around Golden Bay.
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80,000 chickens to be culled as bird flu spreads further on farm
3 Dec 202480,000 chickens will now need to be culled at Mainland Poultry's Hillgrove Egg Farm. Audio
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Northland avocado growers hope Australian shortage will lift prices
29 Nov 2024Last season, bad weather in Aotearoa flooded the domestic market with lower quality fruit.
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'It takes a special person to be a midwife out in the wop-wops'
29 Nov 2024Rural midwives have been finding themselves more and more stretched - on-call 24-7, and teamwork is key, one says.
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South Island backdrop as top rally drivers tackle gravel tracks
This year's rally features vehicles from all over the world, including cars such as Talbots, Escorts, Porsches and Lancias.
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Hawke's Bay farmers under pressure after one of driest springs for decades
Farmers are off-loading stock and crop are failing to strike as dry conditions start to bite.
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Most NZ dairy farmers put profitability first – but some are planting native trees anyway
27 Nov 2024Hedgerows, riparian plantings and shade trees can enhance native biodiversity on dairy farms.
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