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International awards for Massey dairy scientists
WHO’S BEST? Dr Debashree Roy was second equal for her entry titled Composition, structure, and dynamic digestion behaviour of milk from different species.
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TRACTA_J65022_KINGQUAD_NZ_FW RIDDET Institute scientists from Massey University in Palmerston North have won two of the four top prizes in an inaugural International Dairy Federation award.
Riddet Institute postdoctoral fellow Debashree Roy came second equal and research officer Nick Smith was third in the International Dairy Federation Professor Pavel Jelen Early Career Scientist Prize.
Winners of the prizes were announced this week and will receive their prizes at the upcoming IDF World Dairy Summit, to be held in India in September 2022.
Dr Debashree Roy was second equal for her entry titled Composition, structure, and dynamic digestion behaviour of milk from different species.
Her research looked at how milk composition and structure impacts the release of nutrients at various stages of gastric digestion of different mammalian milks, such as cow, goat, and sheep milks.
“Milk is a uniquely designed nutritious food by nature and there is still so much to discover and learn from it,” Roy says.
She says her research answered some important scientific questions about the digestion mechanisms of milk from different mammalian species during coagulation in the stomach, and how that influences the rates of delivery of proteins and fats during digestion in the body.
Nutritional information discovered about the different milks can also help consumers find products tailored to their needs.
“The results obtained have important consequences for developing bio-inspired dairy products with improved digestion characteristics, for controlling the release of nutrients, and to meet the special dietary needs of consumers of all age groups,” Roy says.
Smith’s third-place entry, Understanding dairy’s contribution to a sustainable food system, used a data science and modelling approach to unpick the quantity of food nutrients that come from dairy in our current food system.
He has been involved in the development of the DELTA Model, a global food system mass balance capable of calculating the nutrition available globally from the food system today, and under various future scenarios.
Smith says the contribution dairy made to calcium intakes was significant, with dairy supplying 49% of global food calcium while also making large contributions to vitamins B2 and B12, and indispensable amino acids.
“The nutrients provided by milk are currently of major importance to global nutrition. Any change to this status – either increasing or decreasing this contribution – must take the full nutritional consequences of this change into account, alongside the other considerations of sustainability.”
The IDF Professor Pavel Jelen Early Career Scientist Prize was created to acknowledge the work of scientists and/or technologists in the dairy science and technology field and aimed toward early-career scientists, including graduate and postgraduate students, who are less than three years since graduation from their highest degree attained.
farmersweekly.co.nz – July 18, 2022 17 Hunt is on for arable’s innovators
Annette Scott annette.scott@globalhq.co.nz
NOMINATIONS have opened for the 2022 arable industry awards.
“We are on the hunt for our (industry’s) tall poppies, not to chop them down but to celebrate their achievements and to inspire others,” Federated Farmers arable industry chair Colin Hurst said.
“We are a sector that generates $800 million of sales a year, $260m of that in exports, and we’re determined to better highlight to fellow New Zealanders the role we play.”
The innovators and heroes of NZ’s arable industry will be recognised at an awards event next month.
This is an event put together by industry for industry, Hurst said.
Federated Farmers, the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR), United Wheatgrowers (UWG) and the NZ Grain and Seed Trade Association are working together to make the awards a showcase of the sector’s people and products, recognising, celebrating and rewarding excellence.
“Our industry involves more than $2 billion in annual direct and indirect spending and 11,310 fulltime equivalent jobs.
“Not only are we world leaders in seed production, but we also grow 60% of the world’s radish seed, 50% of white clover seed and 40% of global carrot seed.
“The maize, feed and grass seeds we grow are also crucial for the NZ dairy and meat producers who drive the lion’s share of our export receipts.
“Home-grown wheat for bread products assumes even more importance with supply chain disruption and the war in Ukraine and our thriving brewing industry soaks up our barley,” Hurst said.
The growing diversity and impact of the arable industry is reflected in the fact that the 2022 awards have been expanded to eight categories, FAR chief executive Alison Stewart said.
“As well as recognising top maize, cereal and seed growers and a standout agronomist, there are awards for emerging talent, environment and sustainability, innovation and an arable food champion award open to both growers and those innovators who turn our seeds and grains into end products that consumers want to snap up,” Stewart said.
An overall winner will be chosen
from the eight category winners.
“We’re building this event up to be a must attend on the arable sector calendar.
“It’s time the arable industry stood up and told the rest of NZ just how good we are, she said.
The awards event will be held at the Te Pai convention centre, Christchurch, on August 4.
Nominations are open at www. arableawards.co.nz
Alison Stewart FAR
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