BGS 13th Research Conference

Multi-Species Swards Research Conference

The 13th BGS Research Conference took place from Tuesday 2 March to Thursday 4 March 2021. It proved to be very popular with 179 people from 12 different countries registering for the event, and over 150 attending the live sessions. Funding from the Stapledon Memorial Trust supported the registration of over 50 students.

The full conference programme is available here. Speakers included Caroline Brophy (Trinity College, Dublin), Tommy Boland (UCD), Ian Wilkinson (Cotswold Seeds/FarmED), Paul Muto (Natural England) and Chris Reynolds (University of Reading).

The following sessions took place:

Session 1: Establishment
Session 2: Sward management for grazing and conservation
Session 3: Utilisation and feeding value plus panel discussion

Copies of the conference proceedings are available from our shop (click here)

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POSTERS

Research posters were also presented at the conference.

To view , click on the relevant poster from the list below.

1	Multi-species grazing ley established by min-till or ploughing H.G. Powell, R. Fychan and C.L. Marley IBERS
2	Establishment of a farm network to investigate the long term impacts of leys in rotations E. Sagoo, A. Bhogal, J.R. Williams, J.P. Newell Price and L. Tatnell ADAS
3	Plant diversity affects grassland yield and nitrogen use efficiency G. Grange^1,2, J.A. Finn¹ and C. Brophy² ¹Teagasc, ²Trinity College Dublin
4	Future forages: Assessing forage of today for climate change conditions of the future E.H. Hart¹, S. Christofides ², C.T. Muller², H. Rodgers² and A. H. Kingston-Smith¹ ¹IBERS, ²Cardiff University
5	Insights for sward management using LINGRA-N as an interactive learning tool P.J. Burgess¹, M. Giannitsopoulos¹, M. Bell², G.M. Richter³, C.F.E. Topp⁴, J. Ingram⁵and T. Takashashi³ ¹Cranfield University, ²University of Nottingham, ³Rothamsted Research, ⁴SRUC, ⁵University of Gloucester
6	The VOC signature of ryegrass subjected to environmental and rumen stress S.R. Christofides¹, E. Hart², T. Davies², H.J. Rogers¹, C.T. Müller¹ and A. Kingston-Smith² ¹Cardiff University, ²IBERS
7	Effect of two ensiling systems on efficiency and silage quality R. Fychan, R. Sanderson and C.L. Marley IBERS
8	Alternative forage systems for marginal land C. Duller Independent grassland consultant