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Thirty graduate vets will receive a financial boost to help develop their careers through the Voluntary Bonding Scheme for Veterinarians, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor announced today.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

The Wool Working Group has met for the first time to discuss how they’ll seize all possible opportunities to create a more sustainable and profitable sector, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor said. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Regulations to strengthen our animal welfare system come into effect from today, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor said.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Minister for Biosecurity Damien O’Connor today calls on every New Zealander to help build a biosecurity team of 4.7 million as part of the Ko Tātou This Is Us campaign.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Biosecurity

Ladies and gentlemen, I very much appreciate the opportunity to address you all here in Berlin at the international conference on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and food security and I am so proud to be here as the Minister of Agriculture for New Zealand.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor is on his way to Europe to represent New Zealand on the international sustainable agriculture and climate change stage. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

A decade of climate change research has been showcased in Wellington today.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth Damien O’Connor is travelling to Viet Nam and Singapore next week to discuss agricultural and trade matters. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Trade and Export Growth

A helping hand for busy farmers is at the heart of a new service launched today to spread skills and knowledge across the primary sector, say Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and Climate Change Minister James Shaw.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon James Shaw
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change

Growing New Zealand’s food and fibre sectors sustainably and supporting a thriving economy are the hallmarks of a new investment programme announced today by Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor today announced a package of technical law changes to support the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Biosecurity

Food Safety Minister Damien O’Connor says a majority of public submissions support the Government’s preferred approach of a single set of rules for organic production. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Food Safety

Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor is urging the country’s beekeepers to complete a survey checking the health of our bee stocks.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Minister for Biosecurity Damien O’Connor says Kiwis can celebrate those helping to keep our flora, fauna and vital primary sectors safe by nominating them for New Zealand Biosecurity Awards. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Biosecurity

The Government wants to hear from mānuka honey producers and consumers on whether the honey produced and sold in New Zealand should meet similar requirements to exported mānuka honey.                                  

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Food Safety

The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is backing the West Coast with initial investment in projects that could lift the region’s productivity potential and future-proof its economy.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Fletcher Tabuteau
  • Regional Economic Development
  • Rural Communities

A trans-Tasman consultation on sugar labelling has begun following the latest Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Food Safety

Our food and wine businesses today welcome a trifecta of new food safety tools, designed to make it cheaper and easier to follow the rules and keep consumers safe. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Food Safety

The Government and key players in the wool industry have taken a first step to revitalise the languishing sector, says Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

Farmers, brokers, scientists, fashion designers and familiar company brands meet in Wellington next week to thread together a stronger future for wool.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

More work needs to be done to help New Zealanders understand the true impact of biosecurity threats, says Minister of Agriculture and Biosecurity Damien O’Connor. 

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Biosecurity

Productive riparian planting, flies as pollinators, protecting hill country soils – innovative projects sitting on the side-lines will now go ahead thanks to a funding boost to the Sustainable Farming Fund, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor announced today.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture

The Government will act immediately on some recommendations of the Land and Water Forum including prioritising action in the most “at-risk” catchments. 

  • Hon David Parker
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Environment

Minister for Biosecurity Damien O’Connor has unveiled a set of initiatives to support the Mycoplasma bovis response and improve farm biosecurity practices based on feedback from farmers and rural communities.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Biosecurity