Event Dates


25 Jul 2022
29 Jul 2022
Add to Calendar 20220725T0800 20220729T1300 Grassland Society of Southern Africa

Best Presentation - Portia Phohlo | Excessive nitrogen fertilization is a limitation to herbage yield and nitrogen use efficiency of dairy pastures in South Africa

Best Presentation by a Young Scientist Likhona Cele | The use of interseeded cover crop species to improve the yield and nutritional quality of natural veld and planted pastures for ruminant livestock production

Norman Rethman Planted Pastures Award - Charné Viljoen | More benefits in kikuyu-ryegrass pastures from using lower nitrogen fertiliser rates

Best Research Proposal Poster - Jamie Paulse | The comparative effects of short duration, high density grazing and conventional, rotational grazing on different soil and vegetation parameters in the dry and mesic grasslands of South Africa

Best Poster - Lisa Matthews | Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions in crop systems containing a pasture-livestock phase vs cash crop only rotation systems

Most prolific online adjudicator - Donna Berjak


Other awards:

Best Paper in the AJRFS in 2021 - Zander Venter, Heidi-Jayne Hawkins and Michael Cramer | Does defoliation frequency and severity influence plant productivity? The role of grazing management and soil nutrients

GSSA Prestige Award - Prof Nico Smit and Prof Tim O'Connor

GSSA Honorary Membership Award - Dr Ed Granger



https://2022gssa.dryfta.com/
Aldam Holiday Resort & Conference Centre Grassland Society of Southern Africa info@grassland.org.za

Congress topics

  • Advances in methodology
  • Bush encroachment
  • Climate change
  • Communal rangelands, land tenure and land transformation
  • Conservation and restoration
  • Feed and nutrition
  • Fire ecology
  • Livestock and game management 
  • Planted pastures
  • Rangeland ecology and management
  • Special Session: Delineation of high potential rangeland – methodologies and philosophies (Department of Agriculture)
  • Special Session: Rangelands and locusts (ARC on behalf of the Rangelands and Locusts Working Group) 
  • Special Session: Unlocking regenerative grazing (University of the Free State)
  • Other
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