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Most Prolific Adjudicator 2021
Robyn Nicolay - University of KwaZulu-Natal
Best Research Proposal Poster 2021
Jabulile Leroko - University of the Western Cape
Norman Rethman Planted Pastures 2021
Erica van Zyl
Best Presentation by a Young Scientist 2021
Annerine Myburgh - University of Pretoria
Best Poster 2021
Derryn Nash - KZN Department Of Agriculture And Rural Development
Best Presentation 2021
Christiaan Harmse - Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Land Reform and Rural Development
Best Paper in the AJRFS in 2020
Smit, I.P., Peel, M.J., Ferreira, S.M., Greaver, C. and Pienaar, D.J.,
Summary
Two of the GSSA’s Congress 55 award winners, Robyn Nicolay and Anisha Dayaram, have written feature articles on the work they have been doing and presented at the congress. The spotlight falls on wire grass (Elionurus muticus) and forage sorghum (Sorghum spp.) in our grass and pasture feature of the month. A few mysteries are solved as we finally learn the reason for the deaths of 350 elephants in Botswana and the reason for the mysterious ‘fairy circles’ in Australia and Namibia. Discoveries were made as researchers found a new grass species in the Maloti-Drakensberg area and a PhD student found an ‘extinct’ plant in Piketberg. There is also a new app for karoo plant identification that you can download and try out this holiday season.
The effect of human impact on habitat use of selected large herbivore species in the eastern Kalahari, South Africa
Hanno Kilian
Most prolific adjudicator 2020
Arend de Beer, University of Pretoria
Best Research Proposal Poster 2020
Robyn Nicolay, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Best Poster 2020
Craig Morris, Agricultural Research Council API
Norman Rethman Planted Pastures 2020
Craig Galloway, Trace & Save
Best Presentation by a Young Scientist 2020
Anisha Dayaram, South African National Biodiversity Institute
Best presentation 2020
Devan McGranahan, North Dakota State University
GSSA Special Citation 1986
Prof Scott
Best Grassland Manager 1985
Derek Ivy
Gunson Seed Award 1988
Johan van Heerden
Gunson Seed Award 1986
H Smith - Department of Agriculture, Ermelo
Gunson Seed Award 1989
RJ Eckard
Gunson Seed Award 1990
RJ Eckard
Most prolific adjudicator 2019
Ivette Brits - North West Department of Rural, Environment and Agricultural Development
Lindokuhle Dlamini
University of KwaZulu-Natal
James Calder
University of the Free State
Imke Stehn
University of the Free State
Nienke Scholtz
Grootfontein Agricultural College
Sizo Moyo
Lupane State University
Lynton Dedekind
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Thobejane Lekgale
University of the Witwatersrand
JC du Pisanie
University of the Free State