The Northland farm was identified by tracing animal movements from known infected farms and is now under restricted place notice.
As part of the Government’s $886 million eradication programme all infected cattle on the farm will be culled.
MPI is planning a public meeting in Northland this week with details to be put on its Facebook page.
Thirty farms have now been cleaned and depopulated.
There are 36 infected properties including one lifestyle unit, 16 dairy and 19 dry stock beef farms with a further 56 farms under restricted place controls.
Eight of the infected farms are in the North Island and 28 in the South Island, 18 in Canterbury.
MPI has lifted legal notices of direction off 240 farms.
One of the latest restricted places, Anzco’s Five Star Beef feedlot in Mid Canterbury, continues to work through the logistics of managing the 14,000 beef cattle on the lot.
Anzco livestock and agribusiness general manager Grant Bunting said the feedlot is being treated no differently to any other restricted property and the company is being upfront publicly.
“The difference for us is we are a lot bigger than a traditional farm so in our case it’s not quite as easy.”
“All animals will have to go to slaughter and people are being realistic about that but for now the big question is when.
“It will be weeks rather days before we know how that will happen.”
Bunting said while the feedlot has 44 cattle from an infected property among the 14,000 there.
“Obviously, the 44 in question have been quarantined but the reality is the potential risk from those having been in close proximity with other pens of cattle.
“The approach now is ascertaining the degree of transmission.”
Meanwhile, Southland’s Southern Centre Dairies (SCD), confirmed with M bovis in December 2017 and identified by MPI as where the disease first took hold in NZ, is facing prosecution.
Chapman Tripp law firm, acting for the owners Alfons and Gea Zeestraten, has confirmed charges relating to several breaches of the Biosecurity Act.
“We confirm that charges relating to the importation of farm equipment in January 2018 this year have been laid by the Ministry for Primary Industries against the company and Mr Alfons Zeestraten, as a director,” Chapman Tripp partner Garth Gallaway said.
Despite speculation otherwise, Gallaway said MPI has confirmed the charges do not relate to the M bovis outbreak.
“Any suggestion that the charges relate to the outbreak is wrong,” Gallaway said.
Farmers Weekly understands the charges include the unpacking of goods from a container knowing the risk goods in the container were under the control of an inspector and introducing goods (an effluent pump) into a restricted place without permission of an inspector or automated electronic system, failing to comply with section 25 (8) of the Biosecurity Act, which required a container to be taken to Fertiliser NZ in Winton for inspection and with the condition to call the MPI office to arrange inspection and acquiring and disposing of unauthorised goods.
Zeestraten is due to appear in the Invercargill District Court on November 20.
Biosecurity NZ head Roger Smith said while investigating all pathways for M bovis MPI uncovered other activities in breach of the Biosecurity Act.
“Some small, some not so. I’m not commenting any further,” Smith said.
