Ag Research is a govenment owned company with five research sites around New Zealand.  Ag research  aim is to increase the profits of  the agricultrual industries by developing genetically engineered plants and animals and conducting research to assist the farming industry.

Species used for experiments at Ag Research  labs include cattle, chickens, dogs, goats, guinea pigs, horses, mice, pigs, possums, sheep and rats.  Although Ag Research  is a publicly owned company, it refuses to release information about the research they carry out.  Animal experiments at Ag Research are primarily conducted fot the benefit of the meat and dairy industry and often involve severe cruelty.

Ag Research exists to  persues profit at the expense of animals, people and the environment but we can make a difference, more and more people are speaking out against factory farming, genetic engineering and vivisection (animal experiments)


Ag Research sites ....

Hamilton - Ruakura
 The largest of the AgResearch campuses, located on farmland on the eastern outskirts of Hamilton city.

Palmerston north - Grasslands
 The Grasslands campus is located on 30 ha of land in rural surroundings about 4 km south of Palmerston North city centre

Wellington - Wallaceville
Located in the Hutt Valley, some 25 km north of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city.

Caterbury- lincon
Situated in the rural township of Lincoln, 15 km west of the city of Christchurch.

Dunedin- Invermay
The Invermay campus is on the Taieri Plain, 5 km from Mosgiel and 16 km from Dunedin.

For more information about Ag Research contact

NAVC (National Anti Vivisection Campaign)
navc@animal-liberation.org.nz