News

Congratulations to our Mack Nicol winner

Plant & Food Research's Claire Scofield has won the 2018 Mack Nicol Award for Commitment to Excellence.

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Resistance testing of brown rot chemistry

Following conference there has been a renewed interest in testing brown rot infected fruit and wood.

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The frightening reality of BMSB

If you haven't given much thought to what an invasion of the brown marmorated stinkbug (BMSB) might mean to New Zealand, Kathryn Schulz's article in the New Yorker magazine will...

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Introduction of Samurai wasps supported by NZIER

An NZIER report has made a case for introducing Samurai wasps to deal with brown marmorated stink bugs (BMSB), should they become established in New Zealand.

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Calling old tape

If you have any Japan or Korean OAP sealing tape that is over two years old, please return it to the IVA for destruction.

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Fruit Fly Official Assurance Programme review

The Ministry for Primary Industries is planning to update and re-release the Fruit Fly Official Assurance Programme (OAP) in February-March 2018.

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Summerfruit NZ joins GIA

We're very pleased to announce that Summerfruit NZ has signed the Government Industry Agreement for Biosecurity Readiness and Response (GIA) Deed, and joined 16 other industry sectors that have agreed...

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