Potato Mop-Top Virus Industry Stakeholder Update 2 November 2018
Here is the latest update from the PMTV team at PNZ. [mdocs single-file=”13140″ ]
News and Events
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Potato Mop-Top Virus Potato Industry Stakeholder Update 18 October 2018 – 5:00pm
Please read our PMTV stakeholder update. We are continuing to work through the response. We anticipate the next update to be sent in a week’s time, unless there are major changes. [mdocs single-file=”13082″ ]
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Pillows of dreams: gnocchi makes everything better
Everyone has food blind spots; things they don’t go near or never cook, for reasons of fear, indifference, ignorance or simple bloody-mindedness. For me until about 18 months ago, gnocchi was on my list of blind spots, along with poached eggs, which I avoid cooking if I possibly can (I’m inexplicably bad at it) and…
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PMTV Update – 9th October 2018 – 5:00pm
Please see the latest update about the Potato Mop-top Virus from MPI and Potatoes New Zealand. PNZ ask that all our stakeholders ensure their up-to-date email and mobile numbers be copied to Gemma Carroll via our Contact form. If you have team members needing to be kept in the loop, also send their details. This…
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Health & Safety Growers Advisory October 9th 2018 – Harvester Machine Guarding
1.0 Introduction: As a result of two fatalities and one serious harm incident over the last three years involving tractor-towed harvesters, PNZ has formed a H&S Committee. It was agreed to appoint a Chartered Professional Engineer (Jack Mains/Mainmech) to help growers understand the current WorkSafe standards around guarding. 2.0 Mainmech Report – Potato Harvester Machine…
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TPP response
Providing tools to assist the potato industry to manage and control Tomato Potato Psyllid is the focus of several research projects being undertaken by Plant & Food Research. Plant & Food science group leader, annual crops group, Dr Gail Timmerman-Vaughan said it was five years into a six year MBIE-funded programme with three research aims. Firstly, this was to understand the psyllid’s sensory…
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PMTV Update – 3rd October 2018 – 5:00pm
Please see the latest update about the Potato Mop-top Virus from MPI and Potatoes New Zealand. PNZ ask that all our stakeholders ensure their up-to-date email and mobile numbers be copied to Gemma Carroll via our Contact form. If you have team members needing to be kept in the loop, also send their details. This…
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PMTV update
We are working with Biosecurity NZ to update the advice regarding the Potato Mop-Top Virus (PMTV). As more becomes known, we will continue to provide the latest guidance through our regular updates. Please find the latest copy of our Fact Sheet in the Potatoes NZ library.
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Mr Chips Masterton voted People’s Choice Best Chips for second year running!
Who cooks NZ’s best chips? This year the people of NZ put their favourite chippie forward and voted for the 2018 People’s Choice Best Chips…and the winner – Mr Chips Masterton. Continuing their winning streak from 2017, Mr Chips Masterton beat out over 500 chip shops to be named reigning champion of the 2018…
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Local and lovely: we can’t take local spuds for granted
How much do we care where our food comes from? If a recent survey by Consumer NZ and Hort NZ is anything to go by, we care a lot: around 70% of people agreed or strongly agreed buying NZ-grown fruit and veges is important to them. A slightly higher proportion (72%) agreed it’s important for…
