New Zealand to join world beef research programme

18/03/05 New Zealand is to join an international programme using the world’s best beef researchers in a seven-year project aimed at improving beef quality for domestic and international markets.

Meat & Wool New Zealand is investing $NZ2m over seven years in a new $AU120m Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for Beef Genetics Technologies from July this year. The investment was announced jointly with the Australian-based Beef CRC at Meat & Wool New Zealand’s Growing the Future Conference.

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