The management agency for the national American foulbrood pest management plan is having a review which will guide its operations for the next 10 years. The first part of this consultation round runs from 24 June to 16 July and is an email survey which you can find at afb.org.nz/review-of-plan-order
I have just filled it out and it gives you plenty of opportunity to praise, condemn or ask for changes.
I covered quite a few things including getting themselves a name that is not a sentence .Also the possibility of having legislation on the selling of secondhand beekeeping equipment that is not associated with live hives that can be inspected. With the new swabbing Q PCR technology available perhaps it is time that old beekeeping junk can no longer be sold unless it has a clean bill of health. It might even help some people as I for one would not buy old gear from the back of someone shed but I might do if they could prove it was clean.
Now is your chance to advocate for dogs (I did) harsher penalties or even its abolition if that is the way you feel.
I would really appreciate any suggestions for a new name as The management agency national American foulbrood pest management plan, is really but much.
I will start with
AFB NZ
I have just filled it out and it gives you plenty of opportunity to praise, condemn or ask for changes.
I covered quite a few things including getting themselves a name that is not a sentence .Also the possibility of having legislation on the selling of secondhand beekeeping equipment that is not associated with live hives that can be inspected. With the new swabbing Q PCR technology available perhaps it is time that old beekeeping junk can no longer be sold unless it has a clean bill of health. It might even help some people as I for one would not buy old gear from the back of someone shed but I might do if they could prove it was clean.
Now is your chance to advocate for dogs (I did) harsher penalties or even its abolition if that is the way you feel.
I would really appreciate any suggestions for a new name as The management agency national American foulbrood pest management plan, is really but much.
I will start with
AFB NZ