By Catherine Merlo Mike Hutjens, dairy specialist with the University of Illinois Extension, has been named a Fellow by the American Dairy Science Association (ASDA).

By PRESTON, Nikki Next time you sink your teeth into a tender steak you might have AgResearch scientist Dr Paul Shorten to thank for it.

HortResearch and AgResearch will pool their scientific brains in the fields of food, human nutrition and health. A collaboration with a strong farm-to-fork focus, will work with medical and nutritional academics at Auckland University, and later at the University of Otago.

By TIMMO, Wayne Livestock production is pushing the global environment to the edge, warns a visiting UN scientist, but New Zealand is already ahead of most countries by admitting there's a problem.

By TIMMO, Wayne Hamilton could lose up to 60 top dairy scientists unless the Government comes through with funding for a new research facility, says AgResearch boss Dr Andy West. AgResearch plans to build a $26 million Pastoral Foods research centre at its Ruakura campus.