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Increased sponsorship has allowed five Nuffield New Zealand Scholarships to be announced for 2013.

Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) funding was announced today to pay for half of a $14 million research programme to deliver better seeds and plant species for farmers.

MUCH OF the research in the Waikato is, perhaps understandably, more relevant to dairy farmers than sheep and beef farmers.

Rabobank  has appointed Luke Chandler to general manager of its Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory division in New Zealand and Australia.

GETTING RID of weeds can be a tough business: it may take years to clean up a single site. How long should a landholder keep checking for seeds that may be in the soil waiting for the right conditions to sprout?