The Bragato Research Institute is taking Grape Days online this year to host a series of four webinars over four weeks. Hear from New Zealand growers and their trials, as well as researchers from Bragato Research Institute, Linnaeus, South Australian Research and Development Institute, Plant & Food Research and more. Registration is free.

Tenders will be called next month for the first phase of the New Zealand Wine Centre just weeks after Government funding for the project was confirmed.

Funding of $3.79m from the Provincial Growth Fund cements Marlborough’s place as the epicentre of New Zealand wine industry research and innovation.

Marlborough Research Centre Chief Executive Gerald Hope says the funding is the culmination of more than a third of a century’s work.

Three institutions offering wine and viticulture courses have signed an agreement that will see them collaborate on research and student learning with the Marlborough Research Centre and Marlborough-based Bragato Research Institute.

We are delighted to tell you that Pyramid Farm are featuring on Rural Delivery, TVNZ1, at 7 am on Saturday 20 June 2020.

Pyramid Farm is the winner of the 2019 Cawthron Marlborough Environment Supreme Award, sponsored by the Marlborough Research Centre.

We think it is terrific to see the Awards and the Dawkins family being recognised in this way.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has awarded funding to Bragato Research Institute (BRI) for a pilot study that explores transforming grape marc – the skins and seeds remaining after pressing – into hand sanitiser. The hand sanitiser from the study will be donated to Marlborough health workers and first responders.

The NZ Dryland Forests Initiative (NZDFI) is pleased to confirm that it has been awarded a grant of $539,000 from Te Uru Rākau’s One Billion Trees Partnership Fund.

Congratulations to the Bragato Research Institute (BRI) team on the establishment of the BRI Research Winery, located on the MRC Budge Street campus within a 9 months time frame.

At the opening, the Mayor, John Leggett, noted that this is a Marlborough-based facility but of course the research

The New Zealand Dry Forrest Initiative (NZDFI) is making exciting progress. Its commercially oriented research and development project focuses on plant improvement through tree breeding, with the evaluation of clonal trials being a “most significant step” and a first for New Zealand, says Paul Millen, Project Manager, NZDFI.

The breeding programme is complemented by research on site and species matching, and the