Media releases from MPI and project partners
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2024
- More than $1 million being invested to fund project to control bronze beetle – RNZ
- New Zealand Honey Strategy resets industry ambitions for a strong future – Apiculture New Zealand
- Integrated approach offers fresh arsenal in battle against fall armyworm
- Making livestock feed from greenhouse gases in world-first research – Upflow [PDF, 429KB]
- Sealord to receive multi-million dollar funding boost from government – Sealord
- SFF Futures funding approved, North American retail accelerator a go – Deer Industry New Zealand
- Māori Kiwifruit Growers gets nearly $1m boost to help increase exports – RNZ
- Frozen cherry processing pilot underway this summer – Central Otago District Council
- Shedding new light on strong wool – Farmers Weekly
- Regional agencies plough for new land uses – Farmers Weekly
- Tech set to transform biosecurity practices – Farmers Weekly
- The wonders of woollen carpet – Stuff
- Robot-ready orchards are the future – Farmers Weekly
- Govt backs programme to optimise fish waste – Sun Media
2023
- RAT on horizon to manage facial eczema on farm
- Eucalypt posts project aims to reduce use of treated posts and greenhouse gas emissions on vineyards
- Wood petrochemical substitutes one step closer – Newsroom
- Grinding mussel shells into calcium carbonate offers high-value waste solution
- Drone monitoring project gains 'beyond visual line of sight' aviation approval to help protect Māui dolphins
- Wool project aims to put money back in farmers' pockets
- 'Sheep of the Future' transformational for NZ sheep farming – Pāmu
- Blending aquaculture and conservation to turn malnourished kina into a culinary delicacy, enabling ocean habitat restoration – EnviroStrat
2022
- New project to help farmers gain regenerative agriculture certification
- Tiny parasitoid wasp packs a big punch in fight against giant willow aphid
- Land-based commercial whitebait farm launches in Bluff
- New project aims to say 'see you later Gator weed'
- Three-year cashmere scheme launches
- MPI backs innovative land-based salmon farm
- Scientists launch study into what makes the best New Zealand pork
- Cheesemaking waste product potential gamechanger for diabetes sufferers
- Boosting rural connectivity aims to deliver sustainable benefits to Kiwi farmers
- Plant-based testosterone in pine pollen could be a goldmine
- Owners of unproductive land encouraged to grow 'black diamonds'
- Almonds a new high-value nut to crack
- New appointments to Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures Advisory Panel
- Flowering plants may hold key to pesticide reduction on citrus orchards
- Driverless, low emissions tractor in development
- Eco-packaging for seafood industry
- New handbook shows farmers how to plant trees for bees
2021
- Northland peanut industry dream one step closer
- Funding boost for biodiversity pilot
- MPI funding for transition to Future Orchard Planting Systems
- Pilot project aims to establish commercial seaweed farming sector in New Zealand
- MPI backs project to establish internationally competitive hemp seed processing plant
- Major forestry study to assess performance of erosion and sediment control practices
- Sunflowers a rotational crop option for New Zealand growers
- New Zealand grown and manufactured Kabochamilk heading for Asian market
- Nationwide project offers hope in war against weeds
- WRONZ launches Wool Source
- Horticulture sector to investigate impact of tile drains on water quality
- Pictor developing bovine test to detect Johne’s Disease and
- Putting a local twist on durum wheat
- New food technology brings vegetables centre stage
- Growers choosing to lead change for arable
- New design aims to avoid runaway floats in mussel farming
- OANZ Announces Funding for Organic Sector Strategy
- Sustainably produced beef patties aimed to become new normal
- Pic’s Peanut Butter to trial growing peanuts in Northland
2020
- Training dogs to save the bees
- New research aims to increase longevity of bumblebee hives for NZ growers
- MPI calls for proposals to research regenerative farming practices
- Project investigating viability of large-scale spirulina production in New Zealand
- Southern dairy farmers will have a front-row seat in designing, approving and testing a new wintering system in Southland
- New system to help evaluate performance of New Zealand's dairy genetics
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
- PGP programme to launch innovative consumer research into New Zealand lamb
- Nutrient management programme hits a century
- Passion2Profit joins Primary Growth Partnership
- New Zealand Greenshell mussel breeding begins at brand new hatchery in Nelson
- MPI welcomes independent performance audit of Primary Growth Partnership
- New PGP programme to turn passion into profit
- New PGP programme serves up healthier lamb
2014
2013
- Red meat sector programme formalised and set to boost farmer productivity and profitability
- High quality, lower calorie and lower alcohol wines focus of new programme
- Stump to Pump programme receives PGP funding boost
- Research initiative to rejuvenate hill country
- New dairy PGP programme Whai Hua announced
- Red Meat PGP Collaboration Programme for Greater Farmer Profitability
