Is New Zealand Pork on the Christmas Menu?
NEW ZEALAND - “Is New Zealand pork on the Christmas menu?” asks Angela McLeod, President of the New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPWNZ), “If its not, it should be!”

Farmers Urged to Follow Product Label Instructions
NEW ZEALAND - The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) is reminding farmers that off-label use of veterinary medicines may land them a day in court and a significant fine.

NZ Pork Import Plan Gets Industry Worried
NEW ZEALAND - A proposal to allow the importation of raw pork meat from overseas could devastate the industry, southern business groups and farmers said.

NZ Pork Industry Warns Against Raw Imports
NEW ZEALAND - While cheaper pork could be on the cards for New Zealand, the country's pork industry says any discounts may eventually come at a high cost.

NZPork: Canadian Pork Support ‘Subsidies in Drag’
NEW ZEALAND - The Canadian government’s $100 million support for their ailing pork industry is essentially subsidies in drag New Zealand Pork said.

NZ Ministry Allows Review of Pork Import Rules
NEW ZEALAND - The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has granted an independent review of provisional Import Health Standard for pork.

No Plan to Develop Free-range Brand for Pork
NEW ZEALAND - The Pork Industry Board does not plan to use free-range branding for pork, despite public concern over meat sources.

Pork Consumption Steady Despite H1N1 Influenza
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand consumers have continued to buy New Zealand pork, bacon and ham despite the recent A/H1NI variant influenza virus outbreak commonly labelled as “swine flu”.

Gov't Assures Public about ‘North American Influenza’
NEW ZEALAND - It is now widely recognised that it is not correct to call the current disease ‘swine influenza’.

New Pig Farm Creates Job Opportunities
NEW ZEALAND - Kereone pig farmer Ken McIntyre is about a month out from pinning down a new site for a larger piggery that will expand his business five-fold and create up to 30 new jobs.

Pork Consumption Grows Despite Difficulties
NEW ZEALAND - “The most difficult of the last 30 years” is how Chris Trengrove describes 2008 in New Zealand Pork’s recently released Annual Report. “Biofuels, a commodity boom, drought, losses, exits,...

Consumers Show Penchant for NZ-Grown Pork
NEW ZEALAND - A New Zealand Pork report shows that more people prefer to purchase Kiwi-made pork.

NZ Consumers Reject Imported Pork
NEW ZEALAND - Consumers are beginning to reject imported pork and favour local product, according to the latest import figures.

Weathering the Storm: The Fate of Meat
NEW ZEALAND - The longer-term outlook is positive for New Zealand’s livestock producers, who are well-placed to over-come short-term challenges and weather the storm created by the current financial crisis,...

Long-Term, Returns will Improve says NZ Pork Chief
NEW ZEALAND - Further to comments made earlier this week that low NZ pork prices would bolster consumption, Sam McIvor, chief executive of New Zealand Pork says that producers will have to bide their time...

Low Pork Price Should Encourage Cash-Strapped Consumers
NEW ZEALAND - Pork is now the cheapest meat in New Zealand – and this is sure to please Kiwis hit with recent food price hikes.

Biosecurity Must Focus on Keeping Pests and Diseases Out
New Zealand - The New Zealand Pork Industry Board believes that the side effects of the Government’s aerial spraying programme adds further support to its position that effective biosecurity needs to focus...

Rapid rise in New Zealand pork consumption according to Annual Report
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealanders consumed a record 20.6 kg of pork per capita last year, according to the Board’s recently released Annual Report for the year ending 30 September 2006.

Pork leads increase in meat consumption
NEW ZEALAND - Stir fries, ham, roasts, chops and bacon - New Zealanders love them all and are eating more and more every year, reports the New Zealand Pork Industry Board.

A$82 million for New Zealand pork industry
NEW ZEALAND - The New Zealand pork industry is to benefit from A$82 million of research as a result of the New Zealand Pork Industry Board's participation in an Australian-led bid for research funding...

New Zealand Pork Leads with Animal Status Declaration
NEW ZEALAND - With large quantities of imported pork continuing to reach the marketplace, New Zealand producers have taken the initiative and put in place a system providing traceability back to the farm...