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  • Pestgard Cage Traps - featured on Hyundai Country Calendar
    November 18, 2024 Phoebe Johnson

    Pestgard Cage Traps - featured on Hyundai Country Calendar

    Learn from John as he discusses his methods as a predator hunter and his techniques for trapping those last few elusive pests - catching the uncatchable.

    Keep an eye out for our Pestgard Cage Traps and our new Pestgard Tunnel Trap MK2.

    Iconic rural kiwi life = protecting kiwis!

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  • Airport Safety Week 2024
    October 14, 2024 Phoebe Johnson

    Airport Safety Week 2024

    Airport Safety Week for 2024 runs from the 14th - 18th October.

    Safety is always a number one priority and Airport Safety Week is the perfect time to review your wildlife management strategy. It's a good reminder to check you are doing all you can to mitigate the risk of wildlife strikes, and to ensure the safety of all airport personnel.

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  • Bird Flu - how to combat it
    October 11, 2024 Phoebe Johnson

    Bird Flu - how to combat it

    Bird flu eradication in NZ unlikely if it arrives, MPI says - focus is on ‘reducing impact’

    Avian influenza (commonly known as bird flu) is a viral disease of birds that is found all around the globe. The disease mainly affects birds, but has been known to be transmissable to mammals.

    Read on for ways to mitigate the risk bird flu will have on commercial poultry farmers, the agriculture industry and food production and storage facilities.

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  • Conservation Week 2024
    September 2, 2024 Phoebe Johnson

    Conservation Week 2024

    It's the start of spring, and this week is conservation week.

    Located on the West Coast we’re surrounded by New Zealand’s unique, wild beauty and one of our core values is “care for the environment”

    Conservation week is a great reminder to get out there and “take action for nature” which is this years theme.

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  • The battle of birds vs buds for kiwifruit growers
    August 28, 2024 Phoebe Johnson

    The battle of birds vs buds for kiwifruit growers

    Birds are commonly an issue around ripening fruit such as grapes, olives and cherries, but kiwifruit growers have a unique issue during the end of winter / early spring with birds eating and attacking the flower and leaf buds.

    Bird control during bud burst is important as the loss of kiwifruit flower buds to birds can occur very quickly. This is devastating to orchards as it results in reduced crop yield and revenue.

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  • WinePro Marlbrough 2024
    May 30, 2024 Phoebe Johnson

    WinePro Marlbrough 2024

    We're exhibiting at WinePro.

    Stand: C02

    Marlborough Lines Stadium - 25-27th June 2024

    Pop by and have a chat about bird control solutions for your vineyard, and check out our latest NZ Made products.

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  • Lasers used as bird deterrent at Central Otago vineyard
    March 1, 2021 Maintrac Group

    Lasers used as bird deterrent at Central Otago vineyard

    Article first published in the Otago Daily TimesViticulturist Barry Hunt with "Birdzout" auto bird scare laser to be used at Ewing Stevens' Anthony James Vineyard near Alexandra.  Using lasers to control birds might sound like science fiction but Ewing Stevens...

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