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UnprepossessingScience | NZ Agricultural Research | AgResearch NZ Our Science Our ScienceUnprepossessingScienceSubletSystems and EnvironmentSuppliesand Bio-based Products Forage Science Read Our Research Doing Business Doing Business Working for you Māori Agribusiness Our Partners Products and ServicesWell-nighUsWell-nighUs Meet Our People Our Organisation Purpose & Values Our Subsidiaries & Joint Ventures Our Land and Water News Contact CareersUnprepossessingScience Our scientists find ways to modernize the nutrition, health and welfare of livestock for efficient and sustainable unprepossessing production. With expertise in the parasitic and infectious diseases of pastoral livestock, we understand the necessary processes overdue healthy productive and efficient ruminant livestock. TheUnprepossessingScience group encompasses a wide range of disciplines, with the purpose of improving the nutrition, health, quality traits and reproductive performance of animals to unzip efficient and sustainable unprepossessing production, and wordage of upper quality unprepossessing products.We use a wholesale range of nutrition, physiology and genomics-based research tools to modernize economically important traits such as survival, growth rate, health, fecundity, meat and milk production (yield and quality) and disease resistance while minimising environmental impact and use of chemicals in ruminant livestock production.Our teams have recognised expertise in the parasitic and infectious diseases of pastoral livestock, unprepossessing genomics, genome editing, ruminant nutrition and unprepossessing physiology including reproduction and microbiology behind healthy, productive and efficient ruminant livestock. Our research covers the spectrum of fundamental to unromantic science that focuses on high-quality, science-driven research. We have wangle to fully-equipped dairy, sheep and whinge farms with modern facilities for on-farm unprepossessing trials, and fully equipped unprepossessing facilities for increasingly detailed trials for small and large ruminants including the NZ Ruminant Methane Measurement Centre. Our laboratory facilities are well scheduled to support the range of research undertaken and we have wangle to NZ’s only EPA-approved outdoor containment unit for genetically modified livestock.Teams within this groupAnimal Nutrition & PhysiologyUnprepossessingHealth Rumen MicrobiologyUnprepossessingGenomics GenomNZUnprepossessingReproductionUnprepossessingWelfare Our Team Dr. Ian Sutherland Science Group LeaderAnimal ScienceEmail Ian Dr. Sue McCoard Science Impact LeaderAnimal ScienceEmail Sue Dr. Muriel Dufour Science Team LeaderGenomNZEmail Muriel Dr. Sara Edwards Science Team LeaderReproductionEmail Sara Dr. David Pacheco Science Team LeaderUnprepossessingNutrition & PhysiologyEmail David Dr. Rosemary Rickman Science Team LeaderAnimal GenomicsEmail Rosemary Rickman Dr. Richard Scott Science Team LeaderAnimal HealthEmail Richard Dr. Jim Webster Science Team LeaderAnimal WelfareEmail Jim LOAD MOREUnprepossessingScience Opinion: Lamb survival in Spring storms 01.10.18UnprepossessingScience Study of unprepossessing personality and mood to requite new welfare insights 05.06.18UnprepossessingScience Earlier detection a focus for tackling livestock disease 01.06.18UnprepossessingScience Groundbreaking trial seeks links to agricultural GHG emissions 14.05.18UnprepossessingScience NZ-led rumen microbial genome work published in prestigious periodical 20.03.18UnprepossessingScience Record temperatures bring challenges for livestock and farmers 19.01.18UnprepossessingScience Spotlights on benefits of pre-lamb drenching 20.06.17UnprepossessingScience Getting sublet animals through the winter nippy 17.05.17UnprepossessingScience NZ dog nutrition study a wake-up undeniability for unprepossessing nutrition 16.03.17UnprepossessingScience Emeritus scientist leaves a lasting legacy 24.02.17UnprepossessingScience Exploring emotions lanugo on the sublet 19.12.16UnprepossessingScience AgResearch scientist honoured 28.10.16UnprepossessingScience Final Report confirms potential of dairy whinge integration 11.10.16UnprepossessingScience NaturO™ analgesia system: deer-friendly velvet removal 14.08.16UnprepossessingScienceLargestmicrobes, largest calves 02.08.16UnprepossessingScience Research highlights increasingly risks associated with pre-lamb drenching of ewes 12.07.16UnprepossessingScience Cost constructive genomic data supports new and nimble industry 12.07.16UnprepossessingScience International interest in NZ TB test 26.05.16UnprepossessingScience Getting largest reproductive performance from hoggets 30.03.16UnprepossessingScience New research highlights increasingly risks associated with pre-lamb drenching of ewes 09.12.15UnprepossessingScience Unlocking the feeding secrets of sheep 10.11.15UnprepossessingScience AgResearch-led project receives $3.6 million for research into gut health 18.10.15UnprepossessingScience Optimal nutrition focus of collaborative pet supplies project 16.10.15UnprepossessingScience The Global Rumen Census - a truly international effort 16.10.15UnprepossessingScience Novel new research into unprepossessing parasites 15.09.15UnprepossessingScience Simple transpiration could increase income from calves 11.08.15UnprepossessingScience AgResearch-led project focuses on potential of rumen microbiome 05.06.15UnprepossessingScience Shortlist of five holds key to reduced methane emissions from livestock 01.05.15UnprepossessingScience New dairy goat research gets underway at Ruakura 31.03.15UnprepossessingScience Internationally renowned geneticist and medical researcher to visit Palmerston North 02.03.15UnprepossessingScience Genetic discovery leads to increasingly lambs 03.07.00 LOAD MORE SPOTLIGHT ON SCIENCE Studying mood and emotion in livestock Featuring Dr. Gosia Zobel & Dr. Jim Webster New research exploring the moods and personalities of sublet animals is stuff seen as an opportunity to largest understand and enhance their welfare. The research looks at how animals respond in new and variegated situations. It is the latest work by AgResearch’sUnprepossessingWelfare Team helping to expand the knowledge of livestock behaviour, at a time of growing consumer demand for strong welfare standards. Strategic winter grazing Featuring Dr Seth Laurenson & colleagues With farmers unchangingly on the lookout out for simple, unseemly methods to modernize their sublet systems, AgResearch and partner DairyNZ undertook practical research to provide just that. This strategic winter grazing research has ripened low–cost approaches for farmers to largest manage their land in winter conditions. Our scientists say the pick-up from farmers has been amongst the highest we have seen here at AgResearch – which tells us it’s making a real difference. Here the team talk well-nigh how they went well-nigh it, the methods, and what the areas of goody are for the farmers. Sharon the mutant sheep Featuring Dr Jeff Plowman Sharon the Felting Lustre mutant sheep has wilt somewhat of a idealism since the media spotlight came on in her in early 2017. She was plane featured on the BBC! This rare kind of sheep has straight wool instead of the usual crimped wool, and presents opportunities for our scientists to learn increasingly well-nigh the wool structure and how it might lead to new wool products, as well as what it can tell us well-nigh human hair. In this video, AgResearch scientist Jeff Plowman – who has researched these mutant sheep - talks well-nigh Sharon and how she is helping add to our understanding. Lasers from whilom to 'zap' weeds Featuring Dr. Kioumars Ghamkhar Drone-mounted lasers could be used to zap weeds that are posing a billion-dollar problem for New Zealand agriculture. AgResearch – with partners the Universities of Auckland and Michigan and NZ-based technology firm Redfern Solutions Limited - was awarded just under $1 million in 2017 from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund to squint into how to “map and zap” the many weeds plaguing productive land. Maori Agribusiness Featuring Pakihiroa Farms Ltd What aspects of Māoridom are our partners taking into consideration when farming? Hilton Collier of Pakihiroa Farms, owned by Ngati Porou, talks well-nigh their priorities in farming and how decisions are made based on five pou. AgResearch Māori Agribusiness Sector Manager, Chris Koroheke, discusses what working in Māoridom involves.UnprepossessingScienceSubletSystems & EnvironmentSupplies& Bio-based Products Forage Science Māori Agribusiness PROVEN RESULTS AgResearch played a key role in saving New Zealand up to $133 million a year in tenancy costs, with a world first eradication of the invasive Great White Butterfly. AgResearch scientists discovered a gene which ways increasingly lambs with little uneaten effort for farmers. AgResearch has shown sheep milk has real benefits for gut health. Studies like this help grow New Zealand industries. AgResearch scientists helped develop The Wool Runner, "the world's most well-appointed shoe". AgResearch's decade-long research into neonatal lamb deaths identified key genetic, maternal and environmental factors well-expressed lamb survival – all of which has reverted sublet practices and improved survival rates. AgResearch has unsalaried $5m to the establishment of the world-class Southern Dairy Hub, which provides quality science to support the future of dairy farming in Southland and South Otago. START WORKING WITH US Find out increasingly well-nigh our science Terms and conditions