Our capabilities are vast, from seeds to pest control, high value foods and farming systems. Facilitating the smallest rural project to the largest overseas research project. We produce science and technology projects for the benefit of the agricultural sector and New Zealand.

Agriculture is one of New Zealand’s largest export income earners, and AgResearch plays a key role in delivering new knowledge and technologies to support the sector. Our two focus areas of research are in creating smart, sustainable farming systems, and the most sought-after food and bio-products. These are intrinsically linked – without the right systems we cannot help create quality agri-based products, and we know that the consumer also wants to be sure that their choice of product comes without an environmental cost.

We lead New Zealand’s research in many areas including:

• Pasture-based animal production systems
• New pasture plant varieties
• Agriculture-derived greenhouse gas mitigation and pastoral climate change adaption
• Agri-food and bio-based products and agri-technologies
• Integrated social and biophysical research to support pastoral, agri-food and agri-technology sector development.