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Archive - 2005-2007

• Understanding science for smart snack choices
  
• Keeping the natural goodness when scaling-up production
  
• Maize silage makes the most of dairy effluent
  
• Spider web inspires new nano fibre venture
  
• Science breakthough leads to new gourmet mushrooms
  
• Environment-friendly tools for lettuce growers
  
• High Court decision welcomed
  
• Nepalese farmers to benefit from New Zealand crop expertise
  
• Approval sought for field evaluation of GM onion, spring onion, garlic and leek
  
• New Fund will boost innovation
  
• Diets high in plants of the cabbage family may ward off bladder cancer
  
• Philippa Jones wins HR Person of the Year Award
  
• International magazine announces New Zealand “tearless onion” breakthrough
  
• Minister told about international award for New Zealand technology
  
• International delegation seeks cooperation with New Zealand scientists
  
• Crop & Food Research appoints its first Chief Scientist
  
• Strong growth in cereal-based food exports
  
• New business generated through trans-Tasman scientific collaboration
  
• Reducing pest control costs for arable farmers
  
• Making red lilies bloom earlier for Christmas markets
  
• Potato growers invest in future capability
  
• Crop & Food Research welcomes International Year of the Potato declaration
  
• Organic food industry revived on East Coast, North Island
  
• New food concepts research leader at Crop & Food Research
  
• A versatile tool for better potato management
  
• New initiative for forage brassicas
  
• Crop & Food Research announces appointment of two new Directors
  
• Annual NZIM scholarship in memory of staff killed in air accident
  
• $37 million contract marks new funding environment
  
• Government backs industry and science initiative: wildfish 2020
  
• New database to link invertebrates with host plants
  
• Introduction of new crops changed our landscape
  
• Crop & Food Research welcomes ERMA decision
  
• Spanish market launch for new pest management product
  
• New CEO announced for Crop & Food Research
  
• Approval sought to field test brassicas modified to resist caterpillar pests
  
• New purpose-built facility to find more environmentally friendly disinfestation treatments
  
• New disinfestation technology goes international
  
• Distinctive New Zealand flavours
  
• Science for the future
  
• Bees busted by varroa but natives and other pollinators carry on
  
• Crop & Food Research strengthens links with Korea
  
• Demand multiplies for new, high-value export mussel products
  
• Evolving a food and beverage research strategy for New Zealand.
  
• Approval sought to field test brassicas modified to resist caterpillar pests
  
• Q&A background: Approval sought to field test brassicas modified to resist caterpillar pests
  
• China and NZ to collaborate on plant biotechnologies
  
• Tiger smells Bonfire at Ryder Cup
  
• New Zealand’s future is in smart foods
  
• Crop & Food Research announces 2006 result
  
• Are omega-3 products really the good oil?
  
• Single gene critical to onion sweetness
  
• The 4th Australasian Soilborne Diseases Symposium (3-6 September, Queenstown, NZ)
  
• DNA analyses confirm new truffle in New Zealand
  
• NZIM/Crop & Food Research offer annual management scholarship
  
• Biosecurity tools to protect horticulture
  
• Crop scientists delighted by forage cereals after snow
  
• A first for organics
  
• Better brassicas for more milk
  
• Healthy partnership across the Tasman
  
• Prime Minister Helen Clark opens new $3.9 million plant protection research facility at Lincoln
  
• 120,000 snapper fingerlings released into Tasman Bay
  
• Novelty needed for top-end of the world flower market
  
• Fact Sheet - New Zealand’s floriculture industry
  
• Commercialising Maori kumara
  
• New premium wheat breeding joint venture
  
• New weapon developed for thrips management in glasshouses
  
• Eminent NZ scientists in global push to decipher potato DNA code
  
• Calculators remove fertiliser guesswork
  
• New weapon developed for thrips management in glasshouses
  
• Solving disinfestation problems
  
• Rotten corn to be a gourmet dish
  
• Native flies may be important crop pollinators
  
• Native flies may be important crop pollinators
  
• Crop & Food Research announces increased revenues for 2005
  
• 10,000 salmon fingerlings reared for release into Tasman Bay
  
• Wider aspects of science considered
  
• Slugging a slimy crop pest
  
• Weaker wheats mix with the best
  
• Unlocking hoki's ultimate potential
  
• Optimising customer value in fresh produce
  
• New Zealand horticulture: IP, systems and brands provide export springboard
  
• Strengthening food capabilities
  
• New cut-flower cultivars released
  
• Innovation and New Product Development in a Competitive Global Market: speech by Chair Richard Bentley
  
• Finding out how foods affect you
  
• More research needed on Omega 3
  
• Southland Soil Manual Now to Hand
  
• A French analysis of our rolling hill country
  
• Delivering new gentians to the world
  
• NZIM Canterbury/Crop & Food Research Memorial Scholarship awarded to Dr Glyn Francis
  
• Workshop develops Industry-led priorities for packaging research
  
• New forage oat from Crop & Food Research
  
• Seafood Innovations to drive export growth, product diversification and processing efficiencies
  
• NZIM/Crop & Food Research offer annual management scholarship
  
• AGMARDT post doctoral research fellowship to Crop & Food Research scientist
  

Archive - 2004

• Grain industry goes for unified testing scheme
  
• New research aims to keep new pests out of New Zealand
  
• NZ scientist joins international science committee defining measure for glycemic response to carbohydrates
  
• New business manager at Crop & Food Research
  
• Holy grail of swedes being sought at Gore
  
• Future-proofing the vegetable industry
  
• Precision breeding: a new genetic technique providing international opportunities for crop improvement
  
• Greenhouse gas down and forage up
  
• Crop & Food Research announces increased revenues for 2004
  
• Crop & Food Research wins supreme Champion Canterbury Award
  
• e-Harvest Moisture Analyser developed for optimum silage
  
• Predicting the Unique Manuka Factor in honey
  
• Crop & Food Research GM Onion Trial - Background Information
  
• Routine monitoring finds non-GM potatoes sprouting near field trial
  
• Tecpak gains food knowledge
  
• Healthy food choices for a healthier nation
  
• Dietary Researcher joins Crop & Food Research
  
• Adding value to kumara
  
• New bioactives partnership
  
• Developing new, value-added products
  
• Fully functional vegetables: survey shows opportunities
  
• Crop & Food Research's new science platform
  
• New bioingredients from the sea
  
• Better measure of food impact on blood glucose
  
• Research into nutrigenomics opens opportunities for new high-value foods
  
• Innovation in NZ agriculture and the potential for seafood (the text of speech given by Paul Tocker to the SeaFIC conference)
  
• Research and innovation will contribute to seafood success
  
• A course on cakes that are fine for the bottom line!
  
• Crop & Food Research gains major funding boost for research programmes
  
• $2.4m research partnership investigates non-drug approach to preventing gastric diseases
  
• $18.4m funding boost announced for research into added value convenience foods
  
• Rakkyo - a healthy new food for NZ
  
• Foremost NZ wheat breeder's influence continues
  
• Nutrition expert joins Crop & Food Research
  

Archive - 2003

• Small scale onion trials help answer environmental impact questions
  
• Joint Venture formed to discover drugs from New Zealand plants and marine life
  
• $2.2 million funding boost for Crop & Food Research commercialization projects
  
• New Zealand/Australian partnership to benefit New Zealand wheat growers
  
• Flexible flour miller rewarded
  
• Arnica: taming a wild herb
  
• Emulsifiers: going to the next level
  
• Application to ERMA - Onions: GM onion development provides opportunity to better understand risks and benefits of GM technology
  
• Application to ERMA - Onions: Questions and Answers
  
• Application to ERMA - Onions: Opening Submisions
  
• Application to ERMA - Onions: Evidence of Colin Eady
  
• Application to ERMA - Onions: Evidence of Tony Conner
  
• Application to ERMA - Onions: Evidence of Maureen O'Callaghan
  
• C&FR appoints HR, communications and investment staff
  
• Crop & Food Research reinvests surplus
  
• Website weapon in fight against lettuce aphid
  
• Vegetable Revolutionary
  
• Warm winter boosts Canterbury's BYDV risk
  
• Crop & Food Research is committed to trans-Tasman vegie project
  
• New General Manager, Market Development appointed
  
• GM onion development proceeds with caution
  
• GM onion development - Biography Colin Eady
  
• Innovative ways to control bacteria
  
• Unique gentians closer to market
  
• Crop & Food Research appoints new General Manager Research and Deputy
  
• Crop & Food Research appoints new General Manager Strategy
  
• Acknowledgement
  
• Statement
  
• Trans-Tasman potato co-operation
  
• Young baker on the move
  
• NZ truffle technology wins silver at Chelsea Flower Show
  
• Baking: right people, trained right
  
• Sirius Wheat Calculator - for "Siriusly" good wheat!
  
• Food nutrition information grows
  
• Consider relaxing GM regulations says scientist
  
• Thrips fellowship
  
• Exotic forests threatened by native diseases
  
• Science for a hungry world
  
• Crop & Food Research appoints Investments Manager
  
• More science needed to help feed World�s poor
  
• New risks with increased trade
  
• Half-truths and innuendo create public fear of GM: The case of toad genes in potato
  

Archive - 2002

• World President from NZ
  
• New aphid a scourge of home lettuce patches
  
• New centre a response to tertiary education strategy
  
• NZ Seafood - A Research Focus
  
• Canterbury cereal growers invited for sneak peek near Methven
  
• Free food data for Nutrition Information Panels
  
• Indian blue has arrived
  
• Crop & Food Research declares dividend
  
• Agriculture research company declares $3 M dividend
  
• Grain opportunities
  
• �Where to� with functional foods
  
• Grain: thinking laterally
  
• Call for enabling, not restrictive biotech legislation
  
• Sugar also a culprit in obesity
  
• Poultry Beyond 2005 - Carving a great future
  
• New Zealand GM potato progress
  
• Carrot growing hits the digital age
  
• Warm winter boosts Canterbury's BYDV risk
  
• Why NZ can not be 100% GE-free.
  
• New Crop & Food Research Board appointments
  
• GM moratoriums, regulations, may cost lives
  
• Sweetcorn GM testing results
  
• Further Detections Of Lettuce Aphid Discovered
  
• Rakkyo� a new food for NZ
  
• Research funding variable
  
• Seafood bioproducts add value
  
• Growers urged to watch for new aphid pest on lettuces
  
• Canterbury Growers urged to watch for new aphid pest
  
• Eating wholegrains saves lives
  
• Organic produce no more nutritious
  
• White truffles not Italian
  
• Partnership develops new fining agent
  
• New season's cropping begins
  
• Ashburton the best by FAR
  
• NZ-US partnership researches novel flowers
  
• What do New Zealand children eat?
  
• Hawke�s Bay wine partnership goes national
  
• Partners attack a Super Bug
  
• Attacking a Super Bug on all fronts
  
• Cyberguide now on CD-Rom
  
• Wheat Calculator adds up to profit
  
• Chorus Magenta wins again
  
• Potato research sabotaged again
  

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