<h3>Upcoming webinars</h3>
<p>Our next State of Science webinar will be in April 2021. More details coming soon. <br /><br /></p>
<h3>Past webinars</h3>
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<p><strong>Presenters: </strong>Dr Lorna McNaughton (LIC) and Dr Suzanne Rowe (AgResearch)</p>
<p><strong>Chair: </strong>Dr Jeremy Hill, Chief Science and Technology Officer, Fonterra (and member of the NZAGRC Governance Group)</p>
<p>In this webinar, Lorna McNaughton from LIC (Livestock Improvement Corporation) and Suzanne Rowe from AgResearch discussed their NZAGRC-funded work to develop a breeding programme for low-emitting dairy cattle. Lorna spoke about the development of a new programme to measure methane in young bulls at LIC and CRV &ndash; animals that will parent the next generation of dairy cattle in New Zealand. Suzanne talked about transferring technology developed for sheep to help overcome the challenges involved with measuring methane and genetic variation in large numbers of animals.</p>
<p>View&nbsp;the recorded webinar here:</p>
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<p>Download the PowerPoint presentations that accompanied this webinar:</p>
<p><span class="mix_file"><a title="Low-methane bulls_LIC presentation" href="user/file/2344/NZAGRC%2025%20February.pdf"><img src="images/icons/icon_pdf.gif" alt="pdf" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" border="0" vspace="1" /> Low-methane bulls_LIC presentation</a> <span style="font-size: 80%;">(5.10MB)</span></span></p>
<p><span class="mix_file"><a title="Breeding low-emitting ruminants_AgResearch presentation" href="user/file/2345/Rowe%20et%20al%20NZAGRC%20Cattle.pdf"><img src="images/icons/icon_pdf.gif" alt="pdf" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" border="0" vspace="1" /> Breeding low-emitting ruminants_AgResearch...</a> <span style="font-size: 80%;">(3.53MB)</span></span></p>
<p>Download a summary of questions and answers from the webinar:</p>
<p><span class="mix_file"><a title="Breeding low-emitting livestock webinar - Q&amp;A" href="user/file/2346/State%20of%20Science_Low-emitting%20cattle_Q%2BA.pdf"><img src="images/icons/icon_pdf.gif" alt="pdf" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" border="0" vspace="1" /> Breeding low-emitting livestock webinar - Q&amp;A</a> <span style="font-size: 80%;">(0.35MB)</span></span></p>
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<p><strong>Presenters:</strong> Dr Mike Beare and Dr Sam McNally, Plant &amp; Food Research</p>
<p><strong>Chair:</strong> Dr Sinead Leahy, NZAGRC Deputy Director (Domestic)</p>
<p>In this webinar, Dr Mike Beare and Dr Sam McNally from Plant &amp; Food Research discuss their work to verify the soil carbon stabilisation capacity achievable in a range of New Zealand grassland soils. They explain how they have applied knowledge of the factors that regulate soil carbon stabilisation to produce a first-generation farm-scale map showing the soil carbon sequestration potential and vulnerability to soil carbon loss on one New Zealand farm.</p>
<p>Download the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied this webinar:<br /><br /><span class="mix_file"><a title="Soil carbon stabilisation capacity of NZ grassland soils" href="user/file/2295/Soil%20carbon%20stabilisation%20capacity%20of%20NZ%20grassland%20soils.pdf"><img src="images/icons/icon_pdf.gif" alt="pdf" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" border="0" vspace="1" /> Soil carbon stabilisation capacity of NZ...</a> <span style="font-size: 80%;">(2.10MB)</span></span></p>
<p>Download a summary of questions and answers from the webinar:</p>
<p><span class="mix_file"><a title="Soil carbon stablisation webinar Q&amp;A" href="user/file/2298/Soil%20carbon%20stabilisation%20webinar%20Q%26A.pdf"><img src="images/icons/icon_pdf.gif" alt="pdf" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" border="0" vspace="1" /> Soil carbon stablisation webinar Q&amp;A</a> <span style="font-size: 80%;">(0.25MB)</span></span></p>
<p>View a video of the full webinar:<br /><br /><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DnquQxYNE54" width="500" height="413"></iframe></p>
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