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2025 NZIAHS Canterbury Forum – When Nature Fights Back
October 22 @ 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

You will find a PDF version of the programme for the 2025 Canterbury Forum HERE
| 8.50am | Welcome and Opening Professor Grant Edwards Vice Chancellor, Lincoln University |
| 9.00am | Keynote: Dr John Caradus Chief Technology Officer, Grasslanz Challenges and opportunities impacting pastoral agriculture – New Zealand’s economic foundation |
| 9.30am |
Prof Derrick Moot
Dryland Pastures Research Programme, Lincoln University
Creating better pastoral systems for livestock
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| 10.00am | Dr Dave Bellamy Science Group Leader Adaptive Entomology, BSI – Plant & Food Research Group Beyond resistance – Envisioning agricultural systems in a post-efficacy era |
| 10.30am | Morning Tea
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| 11.00am | Dr Stephen Goldson
Emeritus Scientist BSI – AgResearch Group Eternal wrestling with agricultural pest organisms |
| 11.30am | Dr Charles Merfield BHU Future Farming What solutions look like – Integrated weed management and herbicide resistance |
| 12noon | Rebecca Fisher
2025 APHANZ Lifetime Achievement Awardee Crop production products use and availability – solutions, not problems to a global and domestic challenge |
| 12.30pm | Lunch
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| 1.00pm | Dr Andrew Greer Senior Lecturer, Lincoln University Smarter ways to manage drench failure in livestock |
| 1.30pm | Bruno Gatimel Transition Technical Lead, A Lighter Touch Collaboration and future developments on resistance management strategies |
| 2.00pm | Dr Linda Johnson
Principal Scientist BSI – AgResearch Group From Genes to Fields: Integrating biotechnology and endophytes for agricultural resilience |
| 2.30pm |
Graeme Jones
Arable Business Manager, PGG Wrightson Seeds
The impacts of chemical loss on farm and farm support businesses
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| 3.00pm |
Dr Robyn Dynes
Principal Scientist,
BSI – AgResearch Group Doing the right kind of science – How is the farming system going to look? |





