Research Results
2004/05 Research Final Report Summaries
MAF Policy Information Paper 06/01
ISSN 1171-4654
ISBN 0-478-29804-8
May 2006
Contents
- Introduction
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1. Facilitating Market Access
Category
- Soil phytosanitary issues
- Transport and heat stress
- Economic costs and animal welfare
- Deer wintering systems
- Carpophilus identification
- Revision of the genus Tyrophagus in New Zealand and Australia
- Newborn lamb welfare
- Body condition scores (BCS) for good welfare in dairy cattle
- System for managing welfare risks on organic farms
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2. Maintaining Biosecurity Category
- Investigations of alternative decontaminants for plant viruses and viroids
- Pest risk assessment in peat products
- Imported seed lot heterogeneity: implications for biosecurity sampling protocols
- Effectiveness of treatments for mite eggs
- Molecular identification for moths
- Lymantrids identification
- Taxonomic keys for wood-boring and bark beetles of forest biosecurity interes
- Review of ant bait efficacy
- Survey of Allium viruses in New Zealand
- Evaluation of irradiation as a phytosanitary treatment
- Models for post border detection of visibly undetectable exotic plant pests
- Fusarium circinatum – Year 2 (2004/05)
- The relative attractiveness of baits to Paratrechina longicornis
- 3. Promoting Industry & Rural Community Performance Category
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4. Facilitating Resource Management
Category
- Key poultry welfare indicators (part 2)
- Exotic weed invasions and the management of indigenous forests for timber production
- Deadwood removal from indigenous forests
- Indicators of sustainable management in podocarp-tawa forests
- Indigenous forest restoration guidelines
- Forest boundary management
- Revision of the scale for assessing the severity of live animal manipulations
- Framework for considering the economic and non-economic effects of changing animal welfare
- Precision agriculture and its environmental benefits for New Zealand
- Relative risk index model for pathogens
- Key poultry welfare indicators (2004/05)
- 5. Possum Biocontrol Category
- Appendix 1: Summary of Programmes and Costs
- Appendix 2: Innovation and Research Unit
- Index of Programme Leaders
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