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2024 Canterbury Forum – Nitrogen: Friend or Foe?
October 23, 2024
$130.00
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| 8.50am | Welcome &; Opening Professor Grant Edwards, Vice Chancellor, Lincoln University |
| 9.00am | Emeritus Professor Keith Cameron, Lincoln University Introduction: The Nitrogen cycle in soil – a background presentation to illustrate the flow of N from the atmosphere into the soil, through different organisms and oxidation states, and onwards through different farming and natural systems. |
| 9.30am | Professor Rich McDowell, Principal Scientist, AgResearch Nitrate in New Zealand waterways. What is waxing, what is waning, and why. |
| 10.00am | Dr Tim Davie, Director, Environment Canterbury Groundwater in Canterbury. Where are the high nitrate levels found, how are they changing and why might they be high? |
| 10.30am | Morning Tea |
| 11.00am | Dr Murray Close, Principal Scientist, ESR What happens to nitrate as it moves out of the vadose (rooting) zone, and how might we better manage it (regardless of where it comes from) when it reaches ground/stream water systems? |
| 11.30am | Warwick Catto, Science Strategy Manager, Ballance Agri-Nutrients Ltd The where, when, and how much of synthetic nitrogen use in NZ farming systems. |
| 12. noon | Associate Professor Jacqui Keenan, Dept of Surgery, University of Otago Other colorectal cancer risk factors in Canterbury. |
| 12.30pm | Lunch |
| 1.15pm | Dr Mike Beare, Principal Scientist, Plant & Food Research Better nitrogen management by matching supply to demand: Does the answer lie in the soil? |
| 1.45pm | Dr Alistair Black, Senior Lecturer, Lincoln University Nitrogen and plant growth. Can we design pasture production systems that require less synthetic N fertiliser? |
| 2.15pm | Professor Jacqueline Rowarth, Lincoln University The Dairy Dilemma (epitomising the debate on friend or foe, economics or environment, production or protection) |
| 2.45pm | Emeritus Professor Alison Stewart, CEO The Foundation for Arable Research Having the confidence to cut back on N use in an arable cropping systems. |
| 3.15pm | Closing – Professor Jon Hickford, NZIAHS |
| 3.30pm | NZIAHS Annual General Meeting |
