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OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
OPINION: Your old mate understands that researchers at AgResearch are not taking the proverbial with their latest scientific revelation.
A study arising from a partnership with Ravensdown, AgResearch and Ngāi Tahu Farming, has created a benchmark approach to testing the health of soils.
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.
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.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
OPINION: Your canine crusader is not surprised by the recent news that New Zealand plant-based ‘fake meat’ business is in…