Pierre Beukes

Areas of interest:

• Component and farm system model development and application
• Using modelling tools to evaluate novel dairy farming systems
• Modelling and trialing dairy farming systems that increase production and reduce environmental footprint.

Key projects:

• Farm systems modelling
• Forages for Reduced Nitrate Leaching
• Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions
• Mitigating nitrate leaching
• Designing resilient dairy systems
• Designing future farm systems

Key achievements:

Industry: 

• Contributing to the debate on profitable, productive and environmentally sustainable dairy systems.

Science:

• Using modelling to investigate options for greenhouse gas mitigation on dairy farms.
• Paper on the performance of an efficient dairy system using a combination of nitrogen leaching mitigation strategies in a variable climate

Other roles:

• Ad hoc reviewer for Livestock Science, Journal of Arid Environments, Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, Animal Feed Science and Technology, Journal of Dairy Science, Agricultural Systems.
• Professional member of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, New Zealand Grassland Association.