Research

New Kiwi finds her feet in a PGG Wrightson Seeds lab.

Concrete plans to get the two talking to one another are unveiled.

Claire Bleakley of GE Free NZ takes issue with a recent report on new technologies.

Facial eczema programmme to benefit from top economic modelling.

US agricultural academics keep an eye out for collaboration opportunities during NZ semester.

Organic product employs chitin to block microorganisms.

Comparison to position of other countries points out threats and opportunities.

Lincoln Agritech finds success with ‘new channel to enter markets with meaningful, well-funded access’.

Government spending plans deliver a big fat ‘nothing-burger’ in an area where NZ is already slipping behind its peers.

Once-a-day milking can effect the amounts of particular proteins in milk, a doctoral candidate finds.

It’s painstaking work that can have a widespread impact.

Help with effluent methane may be on the horizon from promising Lincoln University research.

Fiona Foley is enjoying the responsibility of guiding the company’s plant breeding strategy for NZ.

Crown research institute the latest body of scientists to be hit by cuts.

School pupil scoops major scholarship award for work on destructive soils.

A survey raises uncomfortable questions about profitability and carbon footprints in a comparison of farm systems.

Survey shows weeds immune to sprays are cropping up all over the country.

Trial results mark recent harvest as best autumn-sown yield ever recorded.

Study shows how the implementation of GMPs on farm improved water quality over two decades

Presenting range of land-use scenarios, researchers say the worst course of action would be to do nothing.

Government cost-cutting measures come at a time when national research expenditure is already relatively low.

Informing NZ Beef and facial eczema projects to benefit.

Most comprehensive study to date of the social licence to farm draws on five research projects.

NZ researchers travel to Mexico to help unravel connections between micro-organisms, trees and environmental change.

Consumers in US and Australia expressed interest in improving their health through eating red meat.

More than $2.5m in ‘seed’ funding for new extraction technology.

Cost of new tech to be split three ways with dairy giants and farmer suppliers in seven-year project.

Tech minister says NZ scientists will be empowered to ‘do their research here’ and not abroad.

World-first ‘Cool Sheep’ project gives every NZ sheep farmer the chance to use genetic selection to reduce GHG emissions.

Survey aims to pinpoint farmers’ knowledge about current pathogens.

Probability of such a flood now expressed as a ‘one-in-550-year’ Annual Recurrence Interval.

Farmers invited to have their say on funding two programmes.

Plant & Food Research testing various seeds to gauge recovery of land blanketed during cyclone.

Farmers, it turns out, make excellent meteorite spotters – and scientists would like them to keep their eyes peeled once more.

Bovaer study shows efficacy of methane mitigator, albeit mainly on a dairy feedlot diet.

Use of humates together with urea could increase pasture production by almost a third, research shows.