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A new study has found a strong ‘can do’ attitude and cooperative spirit in the agricultural sector were significant factors in minimising losses and uncertainties during the Covid restrictions last year.

OPINION: It's official! New Zealand dairy farmers have the world’s lowest carbon footprint – at nearly half the emissions of other international producers.

A new report has found that Kiwi ingenuity and a drive to “make it work” were crucial to New Zealand’s primary sector managing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ground-breaking collaborative research into improving dairy fertility genetics has been recognised in the annual Kudos Awards.

AgResearch’s new chief executive is promising solid evidence-based science to make New Zealand’s agriculture sector the best in the world.

AgResearch scientist Dr Dave Leathwick believes there’s a strong case for thinking twice about the practice that is routinely carried out by around 80% of sheep farmers as part of their pre-lamb animal health treatments.

State-owned AgResearch’s plan to build a new education, science and innovation precinct at Lincoln has won high level support.

New Zealand forage scientists have been experimenting to discover whether a new, potentially environmentally sustainable grass will perform in the field as it has in controlled environment studies.

An AgResearch survey which found most New Zealanders would try eating insects does not surprise the country’s first locust farmer.

International research led by New Zealand scientists has led to an important discovery in the quest to lower global agricultural methane emissions.