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The Centre&#39;s integrated solutions research programme concentrates initially on developing the tools needed to design novel, practical, credible and cost effective low GHG emitting farm systems. The Centre&#39;s programme of work&nbsp;is fully integrated with a companion programme, Farm Management and GHG Manipulation, funded by SLMACC. The Centre&#39;s work programme initially focuses in two areas: modelling enteric CH<sub>4</sub> emissions and modelling N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from grazed pastures; modelling soil carbon processes is a focus of the soil carbon research programme. Models currently exist for both of these processes but they are either too simple to provide new insights (e.g. inventory procedures used by Overseer/Farmax) or complex, requiring input data that are unavailable, and are not validated for NZ. The development of these new improved models will rely on the work being conducted in the programmes of work on CH<sub>4</sub>, N<sub>2</sub>O and soil carbon. 
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Goals &amp; Objectives</span> <br />
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			<span class="h6">Objective</span> 
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			<span class="h6">Leader</span> 
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			<span class="h6">Timeframe</span> 
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			<span class="h5">4.1</span> 
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			Mechanistic modelling of enteric CH4 production<br />
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			Dr David Pacheco
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			May 10 - Jun 13 
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			<span class="h5">4.2</span> 
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			Improved N20 Component Modelling<br />
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			Dr Iris Vogeler
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			May 10 - Jun 13 
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<span class="h5">Principal Investigators
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Mr Dave Clark, DairyNZ<br />
Dr Robyn Dynes, AgResearch<br />
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Linkages</span> 
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AgResearch<br />
CSIRO<br />
DairyNZ<br />
Landcare Research<br />
LUCI<br />
SLMACC<br />
University of Guelph<br />
University of Manitoba<br />
University of Melbourne<br />
University of Washington<br />
Wageningen University
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Stories 
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			<td><a href="user/file/28/Release5_February_2012_p7.pdf" title="Farming practices to reduce greenhouse gases"><img src="user/image/thumb/235/farming%20practices.jpg" border="0" alt="Farming Practices" title="Farming Practices" /></a></td>
			<td><a href="user/file/28/Release5_February_2012_p7.pdf" title="Farming practices to reduce greenhouse gases">Farming </a><a href="user/file/28/Release5_February_2012_p7.pdf" title="Farming practices to reduce greenhouse gases" class="h6"></a><a href="user/file/28/Release5_February_2012_p7.pdf" title="Farming practices to reduce greenhouse gases"><span class="h6">practices to reduce <br />
			greenhouse gases</span><br />
			NZAGRC Newsletter February 2012</a>
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			<td><a href="user/file/29/Release2_Apr_2011_p5.pdf" title="How is Molly helping our predictive capability"><img src="user/image/thumb/236/MOLLY.jpg" border="0" alt="MOLLY" title="MOLLY" /></a></td>
			<td><a href="user/file/29/Release2_Apr_2011_p5.pdf" title="How is Molly helping our predictive capability">How is Moll</a><a href="user/file/29/Release2_Apr_2011_p5.pdf" title="How is Molly helping our predictive capability"></a><a href="user/file/29/Release2_Apr_2011_p5.pdf" title="How is Molly helping our predictive capability"><span class="h6">y helping our <br />
			predictive capability</span> <br />
			NZAGRC Newsletter April 2011<br />
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