AGRI-I PhD students, Leanne Roche and Gemma Torres Sallan, had huge success at the recent Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Awards 2015. Leanne was awarded Best Oral Presentation and the RDS Medal for her talk on ‘Selecting nitrogen fertiliser sources for improved yield and reduced gaseous emissions in spring barley production systems’. Gemma was joint winner of the Best Poster Presentation. Her poster was entitled ‘A Question of Quality: Soil Carbon sequestration and storage potential of Irish grasslands’. Further information is available here.

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