Welcome to AgResearch New Zealand's Largest Crown Research Institute
A combination of renowned research centres such as Ruakura, Grasslands, Wallaceville, Lincoln and Invermay but most importantly, individual scientists and teams whose work is at the heart of pastoral industries, food processing, textiles and innovative products that benefit all New Zealanders.
World-first new fabrics, Verifi TT textile tracking, and the AgResearch runway show, featuring the work of 10 of NZ's top fashion designers. NEW: Look Book now available.
AgResearch has programmes under way to study genetic modification in cattle, largely aimed at developing products from milk which will improve human health and nutrition.
First discovered in 1996 in the Waikato and Auckland, by 2004 it had spread throughout the North Island. It was first discovered in the South Island early in 2006.
