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The financial viability of farmers having solar panels on their land, as well as stock, is the subject of a significant two year research study being undertaken by Massey University.

A special project for a fourth-year student on Massey University's food technology course has led to an amazing career opportunity.

New research from Massey University could indicate that combining solar panels with a pastoral sheep farming system could have both positive and negative impacts on pasture growth.

Massey University will be celebrating its 50th anniversary of holding a site at the National Fieldays this year.

A consortium of NZ's top soil scientists are investigating ways of how some silt damaged pasture and horticultural land in Hawke's Bay can be brought back in production.

Dairy farmer Thomas Read is one of more than 100 Kiwi farmers trialling a unique plant on their farms to help improve water quality.

Massey University Professor Emeritus Peter Kemp and a team of 30 people there have been researching the effects of plantain over several years and the experimental plots were established at the university in 2019.

Dairy farmers could save more than a billion dollars over a decade by incorporating plantain into their pastures.

A Massey University veterinarian student has been crowned the Taranaki Manawatu FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

Massey University has come up with a simple and cost effective way of stopping sediment and phosphorus getting into rivers and lakes.