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biosecurity

Lisa Gibbison

Lisa Gibbison

In ? We Trust

This report investigates the trusted sources of advice for NZ kiwifruit growers during biosecurity and adverse weather events, with a focus on understanding the drivers of trust within the industry.
  • 2024
  • Kellogg 52
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Tessa Appleby

How does New Zealand ensure we do not get complacent in long-term disease control, specifically Bovine Tuberculosis?

This report, Eradicating Complacency, investigates the current perception and understanding of Bovine TB with farmers and industry, to gauge if there is a level of complacency happening with the disease in NZ.
  • 2023
  • Kellogg 50
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Jake Kitson

What are the impacts on germplasm importers if regulations get harder to comply with and what are the consequences for NZ?

This report aims to help support work in the germplasm import industry, find solutions for import pathways, and keep NZ safe from biological threats.
  • 2023
  • Kellogg 50
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Adele Preston

Is New Zealand prepared for foot and mouth disease?

A Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak would have devastating impacts on the agricultural industry, the New Zealand economy, and have severe implications for farming communities. Communication is a vital part of an emergency response, and its effectiveness has a major impact on the overall success of controlling an outbreak. The question is, are we prepared for FMD in New Zealand, from a communications perspective? This is a disease that is well known, and we know as a nation we would act to stamp it out. With this knowledge, we can, and we should, be prepared. This report combines a literature review with semi-structured interviews. Research articles, journals and presentations were analysed. As part of the research, several primary industry representatives from both emergency response and communications backgrounds were interviewed.
  • 2021
  • Kellogg 43
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Gordon Findlay

On-farm bio security planning.

The recent outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) has shone the biosecurity spotlight directly on the pastoral sector and follows recent serious biosecurity breaches in the horticulture sector with Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa) devastating kiwifruit orchards in 2010. Biosecurity in New Zealand is primarily governed through the Biosecurity Act 1993 and is led by … Read more

  • 2018
  • Kellogg 38
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Amanda Jordan

TB freedom in New Zealand’s domestic cattle and deer herds by 2026: Is this an achievable goal.

The future of our primary industries relies on the wealth that we, as farmers, can create by having safe and integral products that we can export and market to the world. We also need to have a ‘second to none’ provenance story to command a premium price per unit from our increasingly conscious consumers. The … Read more

  • 2018
  • Kellogg 37
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Simon Cook

Simon Cook

On farm biosecurity: The importance of the farm gate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuWnfZWIpjI&list=PL_FGrpOWrfXvXSGWBr9pj48LJHnXeZeJ5&index=3 Listen to the podcast Download the report For the 8th consecutive year World Class Biosecurity ranked the number 1 priority for industry leaders in KPMG’s annual Agribusiness Agenda for 2018. It is interesting to note that while industry leaders recognise this as such a critical focus, at grass roots level there seems to be … Read more

  • March 2019
  • Nuffield 2018
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Matt Dyck

Avoiding complacency in kiwifruit biosecurity.

Psa has increased biosecurity awareness in the kiwifruit industry, and is reinforced by recent fruit fly incursions and biosecurity communications by industry bodies. Kiwifruit growers believe that a future biosecurity incursion is a significant risk to their investment in kiwifruit, if not the greatest risk. Yet on most orchards, biosecurity practices have slipped from where … Read more

  • 2016
  • Kellogg 33
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Payne Angela

The impact of common parasite control systems on the profitability of intensive beef units in New Zealand

Intensification in beef units involves significantly increasing the number of cattle being farmed per hectare, in a controlled situation, so that feed requirements are calculated and provided at specific levels to maximize the conversion of dry matter into beef at the most critical and profitable times. Internal parasitism reduces the appetite of animals, decreasing grass … Read more

  • 1999
  • Kellogg 15
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Dwyer, Rosie

Mad cows and Englishmen – Scrapie, BSE & CJD

Transmissible Sponqiform Encephalopathies (TSE’s) are a group of diseases that affect certain types of animals and can also be found in humans. Transmissible refers to the fact that the diseases can be transferred or spread. Sponqiform refers to the groups of holes which form in the brain and Encephalopathy means degenerative brain disease. Each TSE … Read more

  • 1997
  • Kellogg 14
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Cook, John

Agricultural chemicals and unexplained ill health

Civilisation has survived for thousands of years using primitive forms of agriculture but in a few short years it has threatened to self-destruct by introducing chemicals not natural to it’s environment. It has done this to ‘more efficiently’ protect it’s food resource. People are now beginning to understand the implications of this chemical usage and … Read more

  • 1986
  • Kellogg 7
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