Use the filters and free-text search field below to view and download peer-reviewed papers, reports, presentations, articles, factsheets and other material from the NZAGRC's research programmes and activities.
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Future Farm Systems: A stocktake of existing research
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Protocol for including Mitigation actions in Agricultural Lifecycle Assessment
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National Infrastructure Plan
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Inhibitors application time and pasture canopy capture regulate gaseous losses of urine-N
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Crystal Structures of Bacterial Pectin Methylesterases Pme8A and PmeC2 from Rumen Butyrivibrio
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Pharmacokinetics of bromoform in dairy heifers
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Contrasting response of comammox Nitrospira, ammonia oxidising bacteria, and archaea to soil pH and nitrogen inputs
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Substituting ryegrass-based pasture with graded levels of forage rape in the diet of lambs reduced post-feeding variation in methane emissions
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Large-scale analysis of sheep rumen metagenome profiles captured by reduced representation sequencing reveals individual profiles are influenced by the environment and genetics of the host
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Combining host and rumen metagenome profiling for selection in sheep: prediction of methane, feed efficiency, production, and health traits
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Associations of Grazing and Rumination Behaviours with Performance Parameters in Spring-Calving Dairy Cows in a Pasture-Based Grazing System
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Takahuri Whenua - the Changing Land a decision support framework for GHG emissions reductions and land diversification
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Reduction of Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Urine Patches from Grazed Dairy Pastures in New Zealand: A Preliminary Assessment of ORUN® as an Alternative to the Use of Nitrification Inhibitor Dicyandiamide (DCD)
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Complete genome sequence of Methanosphaera sp. ISO3-F5, a rumen methylotrophic methanogen
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Complete genome sequence of the rumen bacterium Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens D1T
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The crystal structure of methanogen McrD, a methyl-coenzyme M reductase-associated protein
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Effects of dairy farming management practices on carbon balances in New Zealand’s grazed grasslands: Synthesis from 68 site-years
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Paddock-scale carbon and greenhouse gas budgets in the first year following the renewal of an intensively grazed perennial pasture
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Progress in the development of vaccines against rumen methanogens
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CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PASTORAL GREENHOUSE GAS RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 2003–2021
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Reducing methane emissions in sheep by immunization against rumen methanogens
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Greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand agriculture: issues, perspectives and industry response
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Cross-reactivity of antibodies to different rumen methanogens demonstrated using immunomagnetic capture technology
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Mapping immunogenic epitopes of an adhesin-like protein from Methanobrevibacter ruminantium M1 and comparison of empirical data with in silico prediction methods
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Development of a vaccine to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture: Vaccination of sheep with methanogen fractions induces antibodies that block methane production in vitro
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Summary reports: Disruptive diverse land use change options for the ruminant pastoral agriculture – analysis of wheat, chestnut, blueberries, hemp and tōtara
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Disruptive diverse land use change options for the ruminant pastoral agriculture – analysis of wheat, chestnut, blueberries, hemp and tōtara
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The Potential Use Of Bromoform As A Methane Mitigating Technology In Aotearoa New Zealand Farm Systems
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How livestock affect the carbon cycle
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The persistence and efficacy of nitrification inhibitors to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from New Zealand pasture soils amended with urine
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A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study
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Farm-Level Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of In-Paddock Feeding of Methane Inhibitors in Pasture-Based Dairy
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Mitigation potential and trade-offs for nitrous oxide emissions and carbon balances of irrigated mixed-species and ryegrass-clover pastures
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Structural characterisation of methanogen pseudomurein cell wall peptide ligases homologous to bacterial MurE/F murein peptide ligases
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The carbon balance of a temperate grazed pasture following periodic maize silage cropping depends on climate and management
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Insight into the physiology of Quinella, an iconic uncultured rumen bacterium
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Evaluation of Feed Near-infrared Reflectance Spectra as Pre-dictors of Methane Emissions from Ruminants
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Forage type affects the temporal methane emission profiles in dairy cows fed fresh forages
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Simulating the number of spot-samples required to estimate the methane to carbon dioxide ratio in lambs and its relationship with methane yield
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Alternative Uses for Existing Crops: An Analysis of Potential Markets and Infrastructure and Supply Requirements in New Zealand
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Futures for New Zealand’s arable and horticultural industries in relation to their land area, productivity, profitability, greenhouse gas emissions and mitigations
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A review of plant options for mitigating nitrous oxide emissions from pasture-based systems
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Can we have our steak and eat it: impact on production, yield and meat quality in sheep bred for lowered environmental impact
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Genetic parameters for residual feed intake, methane emissions and body composition in New Zealand maternal sheep
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Archaeal pseudomurein and bacterial murein cell wall biosynthesis share a common evolutionary ancestry
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Spring pasture renewal involving full inversion tillage and a summer crop can facilitate soil C storage, improve crop yields and lower N leaching
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Effect of feeding fresh forage plantain (Plantago lanceolata) or ryegrass-based pasture on methane emissions, total-tract digestibility, and rumen fermentation of non-lactating dairy cows
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Substituting ryegrass-based pasture with graded levels of forage rape in the diet of lambs decreases methane emissions and increases propionate, succinate, and primary alcohols in the rumen
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Accelerating the development of biological nitrification inhibition as a viable nitrous oxide mitigation strategy in grazed livestock systems
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Low-cost sample preservation methods for high-throughput processing of rumen microbiomes