Doug Edmeades

Douglas Charles Edmeades
Born	1949 Hamilton, New Zealand
Residence	New Zealand
Alma mater	Lincoln University / University of Canterbury
Awards	Officer of The New Zealand Order of Merit
Scientific career
Fields	Soil Science
Thesis	The measurement of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in established pastures and some aspects of the nitrogen cycle in a sequence of pastures of increasing age (1976)

Dr.Douglas Charles Edmeades MSc (Hons), Ph D. Dip Management ONZM (born 1949) is a New Zealand soil scientist. He was involved in high-profile litigation in relation to the effectiveness of the Maxicrop brand of fertilizer.

After a Ph.D. from Lincoln College (awarded through Canterbury University due to Lincoln's status at the time) Edmeades worked for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at Ruakura and then AgResearch after the 1992 reorganisation which created Crown Research Institutes. He left in 1996 and now runs his own consultancy, agKnowledge Ltd.

Edmeades was made an Officer of The New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 Birthday Honours.

In 1989, while working for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Edmeades appeared on the TV show FairGo expressing the view that seaweed-based Maxicrop didn't work. Legal action was initiated by Maxicrop's New Zealand distributor, the Bell-Booth Group. In Bell-Booth Group Ltd v Attorney-General the Court of Appeal found for MAF and FairGo after 'the country's longest civil court case.'

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