Southern voices have joined together in an unprecedented display of unity to call for more investment, not less, in Dunedin's Invermay agricultural research centre.
Former Invermay director Dr Jock Allison has described AgResearch's proposed restructuring - and its effect on Invermay - as ''complete lunacy'', both from economic and science perspectives.
Invermay's legacy was ''huge'', Neville Jopson, managing director of Dunedin-based consultancy and new venture development company AbacusBio, said yesterday.
Huge projects are at stake as AgResearch prepares to reduce staff numbers at Invermay and centralise on Lincoln and Palmerston North, Dunedin North MP David Clark says.
Dunedin scientists had an exciting opportunity to learn more about the rarely examined Arnoux beaked whale this week.
Invermay-based AgResearch applied biotechnologies general manager Jimmy Suttie yesterday declined to comment on his future after restructuring of the organisation's management.
Agresearch is proposing to shed nine staff from its Invermay campus as part of redundancy plans which could result in the Crown Research Institute Institute (CRI) cutting back its total workforce of employees by more than 40 people.