New Thinking
AgResearch, New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute, has today announced a major investment programme that is the largest of its kind in New Zealand agricultural science.
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On Friday 13 May the DuPont Innovation Award in the `Performance Materials’ category was presented to AgResearch’s Senior Scientist Chris Pennell and Grasslanz Technology Limited.
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Significantly, increasing milk production is the theme of research being presented by AgResearch scientists at the NZBIO Conference 2011 in Auckland on 21 March 2011, focusing on enabling successful biotechnology.
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AgResearch says the Government’s recent announcement of a $17.25m investment in a wool research consortium means the start of a new era in wool research.
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The New Zealand Wool Testing Authority Ltd (NZWTA Ltd) has entered into an unconditional agreement to purchase the assets and business associated with the Textile Testing Division of AgResearch.
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New AgResearch chief executive Tom Richardson plans to meet with dairy industry leaders over the next few months to better understand the industry and what research the CRI can best provide.
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An ongoing Landcare Research programme that highlights the importance of bees to agriculture and offers practical ways to encourage better bee health on New Zealand farms is proving highly popular.
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AgResearch parasitologist Dr Dave Leathwick has received the 2010 McMeekan Memorial Award for his work in parasite management and drenching practices in the New Zealand sheep industry.
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Intensive farming is destroying native plants at the fastest rate since European colonisation, Landcare Research says
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Any refinement to the animal welfare code must be backed by science and not emotion. That’s the advice from the outgoing head of New Zealand’s largest crown research institute, Andy West.
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New Science
AgResearch scientists are working on a chemical-free biopesticide that kills the pasture-munching caterpillars
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A new study by AgResearch scientists shows oral cattle drenches are far more effective than the equivalent pour-on or injectable products. In a study soon to be published in the international science journal Veterinary Parasitology, AgResearch scientists Chris Miller and Dave Leathwick measured how effective the same drench active (moxidectin) was when given orally, as a pour-on or as an injectable.
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AgResearch scientists have bred the first cow in the world to produce high protein milk that may be hypo-allergenic.
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AgResearch’s role in the changing face of farming is the theme for AgResearch’s stand in the Premier Feature area at this year’s National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek.
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Giant buttercup, a damaging European dairy pasture weed that is avoided by cattle due to its acrid taste, is costing New Zealand hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue as dairy farmers battle to control it.
The attractive yellow-flowered weed is developing resistance to modern herbicides, in part due to farm management practice, according to AgResearch scientists.
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AgResearch scientists have made a breakthrough proving a long-held hypothesis that white clover originated as a hybrid of other clover ancestors, followed by a chance doubling of the chromosome number to restore fertility.
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AgResearch have developed a ryegrass seed using endophytes which acts as a bird deterrent, and has possible applications for airports, golf courses, kiwifruit orchards and vineyards.
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New research from Landcare Research indicates that the speed of early forest clearance following human colonisation of the South Island of New Zealand was much faster and more intense than previously thought.
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Scientists at Plant & Food Research say these act as landing lights for bees, or nature’s way of inviting bees to sample the nectar and pollen in a flower gives us beautiful flowers often with intricate colour patterns.
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Bayer Animal Health GmbH and Paraco Technology Limited, a 100% owned subsidiary of AgResearch, have signed an option agreement allowing Bayer exclusive access to Paraco’s current lead molecules for testing and development in animal health.
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New Value
The Irish wasp is back to battle the clover root weevil this summer, after a slump in numbers.
Like many farmers in the northern North Island, Mike McKie from Opunaki has been benefiting from plentiful clover in recent years, but is now alarmed at the reappearance of the distinctive feeding notches of the adult clover root weevil and the number of larvae in the soil.
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AgResearch has launched a revolutionary technology which measures natural immunity to internal parasites in sheep more quickly, accurately and easily than existing tests.
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With the launch of the Land Resource Information System (LRIS) Portal
http://lris.scinfo.org.nz, individuals working in regional and central government, industry, research and education now have quick and easy access to environment data held by Landcare Research.
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Spray chilling deer carcasses minimises weight loss without reducing the tenderness of venison, according to a recently released AgResearch study funded by DEEResearch and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST).
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A raft of new genetic technologies developed by AgResearch in consultation with Deer Industry NZ, will soon be put to use to boost breeding in the New Zealand deer industry.
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Dr Rex Munday of AgResearch has won this year’s Kudos Award for Lifetime Achievement, which was sponsored by the University of Waikato.
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Agricultural scientist Dr Stewart Ledgard of AgResearch took out the Agricultural Science Award at the Kudos Awards this month for his research and development of the Overseer model.
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An Open Day on 20 November at the revolutionary AgResearch Research Dairy Farm at Tokanui will give visitors a glimpse of the future of dairy farming.
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AgResearch Scientist Dr Christine Couldrey has led a believed world-first: a successful bovine genome-wide methylation scan.
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