WaiBER

Newspaper article on our greenhouse gas work at Troughton farm:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/103195124/retaining-soil-carbon-the-answer-to-managing-agricultural-ghg-emissions

We are proud to work closely with Ben and Sarah Troughton at their farm. They talk about their farming philosophy here.

Happy days! Researchcake made the news, article by Eloise Gibson at Newshub
https://bit.ly/2IvmAvI

Had an excellent visit to our field site by board members from PGGRC board members Andrew Morrison and Gavin Sheath and General Manager Mark Aspin.

Sheree Balvert was awarded the Bert Quinn award in recognition as a PhD in their final year most likely to contribute to New Zealand Soil Science.

A slightly late congratulations to two members of WaiBER for awards from the New Zealand Society of Soil Science.

• Sam McNally was awarded the Morice Fieldes Award for most meritorious PhD thesis 2016

• Jasmine Robinson was awarded the Sir Theodore Rigg award for best masterate thesis 2016.

Sam is currently a postdoc at Plant and Food while Jasmine is conducting a PhD at Waikato University.