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It's a wee issue but with a big environmental impact, and a new award-winning technology developed by AgResearch may help farmers to address it.

OPINION: I was interested to read the recent commentary from the Hound that stud breeders are unhappy about the “recent push to include methane traits in sheep”; and the off-the-record feedback from an ag scientist that research money was “falling into their laps and laboratories”.

A study arising from a partnership with Ravensdown, AgResearch and Ngāi Tahu Farming, has created a benchmark approach to testing the health of soils.

AgResearch is claiming that new technology to measure bovine methane emissions will bolster efforts to reduce the climate change impact from livestock.

Sheep with finer wool, greater tolerance for hot weather, top meat quality traits, and lower methane emissions.

You might say Trevor James has been stuck in the weeds for almost half a century.

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, and nitrogen fertiliser has long been critical to maintaining the high productivity of grazed pasture systems in New Zealand.

Te Puke is famed as New Zealand’s kiwifruit capital, but new research could mean that top spot is contested in the future, with suitable kiwifruit production land identified in Waikato, Taranaki and the top of the South Island.

Rural contractors and regional councils are supporting a new AgResearch programme on invasive alligator weed.

Meat delivers more of the essential protein building blocks compared to a plant-based alternative.