The extent to which the long-besieged Invermay research campus has been saved appears to be very much in the eye of the beholder. Many were relieved when Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods told AgResearch she wanted Invermay maintained as a centre of primary sector research, especially for sheep genetics and genomics. That campus — and the erosion to Invermay and significant staff upheaval that came with it — was on the cards since the Future Footprint plan was announced in 2013. It refused to answer our questions about its commitment to keeping key staff at Invermay at about the same time the newspaper learned it had not told key staff whether they would stay where they were. That is the Invermay many hope has been saved, and many hope to hear has been.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 15, 2019 15:22 UTC