Cut with care
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
AgResearch has been awarded $4.25m in funding to develop sensors which will accurately measure the quality of export beef, lamb and venison in order to enhance consumer confidence in New Zealand’s meat.
AgResearch has been awarded over $16m in funding to further its research into pest control, animal nutrition, and forage production, and to research ways to objectively measure the quality of New Zealand meat.
Lincoln University could sell or lease some of its farms and shed more staff as it struggles to correct a funding shortfall.
Fat is back for lambs: we may have gone too far towards leaness, claims a senior scientist with AgResearch's animal genomics team, Tricia Johnson.
Researchers are about to begin looking at how to gain the health benefits of drinking raw milk without risking the pitfalls.
A big challenge to the New Zealand sheep milking industry is that a lot of the known science is based on overseas indoor, or mixed indoor-outdoor systems.
How to get better reproductive performance from hoggets is the question AgResearch animal reproduction scientists at Invermay are seeking to answer.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
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