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Dairy farmers are being urged to review their breeding strategies for the upcoming mating season to get benefits gained by the breeding of low BW cows to proven beef sires.

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.

Use of proven beef genetics delivers the goods on dairy farms, a five-year study has found.

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.

Still on the Fieldays, one weird product seen there has made global news.

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.

Farmers may soon have another weapon for fighting the weed Californian thistle, says AgResearch.

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.