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Matthew Hegarty(Host)
Department of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences

Date	2017
Type(s)	Hosting a non-academic visitor

Description

Meeting with visiting group from Ag Tech New Zealand. Drs. Shannon Clarke and Kathryn McRae of Ag Tech NZ visited IBERS alongside other members of their company to give a talk, after which they engaged with Dr Hegarty and discussed the use of genomic selection technologies in sheep breeding, including the outcomes of this project. The broad uptake of genomics by NZ farmers was conveyed and passed on to UK parties.