AgResearch manager Peter Benfell has been appointed as a board director of Palmerston North's Bio Commerce Centre. Mr Benfell is AgResearch's science and technology general manager - agriculture and environment, and his career has focused on science, product development and commercialisation.

By GRANT Higher production, lower environmental costs are core goals of the research institute. -------------------- Hands up anyone who talked about carbon footprints five years ago.

By MORGAN, Jon AGRESEARCH'S bold plan to boost the agriculture economy by 2020 is taking shape.

Verizon Business has entered into a three-year agreement with Research Education Advanced Network New Zealand, a government-sponsored initiative, to manage a global network service for university and library users to communicate with each other.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- University and library researchers in New Zealand will soon be able to collaborate to more effectively with their counterparts in the rest of the world.