All posts tagged "research"

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  Decades old DNA match aids battle against pasture pests

  AgResearch scientists tackling costly farm pests have shown their skills as amateur detectives, tracking down and using DNA from decades-old museum collections...

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  M.bovis finds

  Federated Farmers is disappointed, but not surprised, to learn of three new finds of stock with Mycoplasma bovis.

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  Start of work on Joint Facility marked by Minister

  The start of work on a world-class $206 million joint facility to house AgResearch and Lincoln University researchers, students and staff –...

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  Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust

  New Zealand is the first, and still the only, country to fully include forest landowners in a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme,...

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  Survey shows big jump in number of farms making a profit

  A few weeks of winter remain but the Federated Farmers July 2017 Farm Confidence Survey shows there’s a spring in the step...

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  Most Kiwis satisfied with healthcare access

  Demographic and psychological factors correlates to satisfaction with healthcare access in New Zealand.

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  Farmers celebrate opening of Southern Dairy Hub

  The world-class Southern Dairy Hub has been formally opened, marking a new era for dairy farming supported by research in the deep...

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  New Zealand’s melting moments

  New research from Victoria University of Wellington has provided in-depth information about how the Earth’s mantle deep beneath the central North Island...

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  Counting sheep and other farm facts

  All New Zealand farmers are taking part in the Agricultural Production Census run by Stats NZ. Livestock farmers, orchardists, wine growers, arable...

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  Weeds head for the hills as climate warms

  Scientists are warning that alpine plants are at risk of extinction as climate change, skiing and mountain tourism spread weeds to higher...