Research

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.

With funding in place and covid’s lessons still fresh, AgResearch could be closing in on a solution to costly condition.

Allan Barber takes a closer look at new claims about the beef industry abroad.

Farmers and growers here embrace its soil-improvement properties.

Scientists say an extended lactation system could bring about a more worker-friendly environment without affecting profits.

Researchers track effects of kiwifruit on mood and wellbeing.

Leaving after five years as CEO, having overseen ‘significant period of growth’.

Analysing the nutrient level of harvested crops can improve returns and yields.

Models will give more accurate predictions how large wildfires will spread.

Scion young science leader on a mission to grow awareness of climate strategy.

Revitalise Te Taiao is a research programme working alongside agribusinesses and communities as they progress land-use change, work with value chains and connect with markets to revitalise te taiao.

German research confirms worst fears about knock-off effects of varroa mite.

Work at Fonterra raises the prospect of milk-sourced probiotics crossing the gut-brain axis to help improve people’s mental health.

Lincoln biosecurity expert joins elite list of international scientists and social scientists.

Pioneered use of wasps in fighting pasture pests, saving country hundreds of millions of dollars.

The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of vegetarians, vegans and other dietary patterns that exclude some animal-source foods in Kiwi adults.

The pee is not silent as scientists devise way to monitor ‘urination events’ by the sound they make.

Stephen Goldson has been awarded the Ray Brougham Trophy for his outstanding contribution to grassland farming in NZ.

Rural investment company offers new scholarships for ag research.

New research contradicts the ‘closed loop’ theory of grassland GHG sequestration wiping out the emissions of the livestock grazing it.

Rural Land Co keen to learn its numbers as first round of national carbon sampling nears completion.

Dramatic shifts in ecosystems tracked in new study of forested vs deforested streams.