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AgResearch
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Agency overview
Headquarters Lincoln , Canterbury, New Zealand
Agency executives
  • Dr. Sue Bidrose, Chief Executive
  • Dr. Paul Reynolds, QSO, Chair
Website http://www.agresearch.co.nz

AgResearch Ltd (formerly known as New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute Limited ) is one of New Zealand 's largest Crown Research Institutes with over 700 staff and revenue of NZ$160.7 million in the year to June 2014. [1]

Main areas of research [ edit ]

AgResearch exists to serve the agriculture and biotechnology sectors of New Zealand industry .

History [ edit ]

AgResearch was created along with New Zealand's other Crown Research Institutes in 1992. In AgResearch's case, this was largely by merging the pastoral agriculture-related portions of MAFTech (the research arm of the then Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ) which had predominantly carried out animal research, with the agriculture-related portions of DSIR , which had predominantly carried out research on forage plants.

AgResearch has grown over time by acquiring research organisations "down" the value stream from its initial on-farm emphasis, such as the former Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand ( MIRINZ ) in 1999 and the former Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand ( WRONZ , which had been rebranded as Canesis ) in 2007.

In March 2009 AgResearch announced that it planned to merge with Lincoln University , [2] but that was subsequently changed to an intention to form a joint venture. [3]

A plan called "Future Footprint" was announced in 2013 to concentrate resources at the Grasslands site in Palmerston North and Lincoln campus near Christchurch. [4] This involved the transfer of about 200 staff mostly from Ruakura (Hamilton) and Invermay (Dunedin) sites. [5] There were reports that a substantial number of staff left the CRI after Future Footprint was announced [6] [7] and staff morale was poor with redundancies being considered in September 2015. [8] About 50 scientific staff were made redundant in 2016. [9] The government approved the restructure in June 2016. [10] These changes were not eventually implemented due to staff backlash and resignations so the genomics teams remain at Invermay. [11]

Organisation [ edit ]

AgResearch's science capability is divided into six groups: Animal Productivity, Forage Improvement, Food & Bio-based Products, Animal Nutrition & Health, Innovative Farm Systems and Land & Environment. Science staff operate in five portfolio groups representing major sectors: Dairy On-farm, Dairy Pasture-to-plate, Meat & Fibre On-farm, Meat & Fibre Paddock-to-Consumer and Agricultural Policy & Maori Agribusiness .

Locations [ edit ]

AgResearch has research campuses at locations around New Zealand, including:

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Annual Report 2013/14" (PDF) . AgResearch. 27 August 2014. pp. 2, 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2016 . Retrieved 21 September 2015 .
  2. ^ "AgResearch, Lincoln University merger planned" . The New Zealand Herald . 10 March 2009.
  3. ^ "AgResearch, Lincoln University joint venture" . Scoop. 11 August 2009 . Retrieved 25 September 2021 .
  4. ^ "Future Footprint" . AgResearch . Retrieved 21 September 2015 .
  5. ^ Piddock, Gerald (21 September 2015). "AgResearch redundancies expected this week" . NZ Farmer.
  6. ^ "Fears many AgResearch staff leaving" . Radio New Zealand. 25 July 2014.
  7. ^ Elder, Vaughan (28 February 2015). "Clark 'alarmist' over AgResearch" . Otago Daily Times .
  8. ^ "AgResearch confirms job cut talks" . Radio New Zealand. 21 September 2015.
  9. ^ "AgResearch to lay off 5 fewer scientists/techs" . Radio New Zealand. 29 October 2015.
  10. ^ "$133m AgResearch restructure gets go-ahead" . Radio New Zealand. 2 June 2016.
  11. ^ "Facility plan was 'disaster' " . Otago Daily Times. 16 February 2019.

External links [ edit ]

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