The Landcorp Farming Lecture (formerly the Livestock Improvement Corporation Lecture from 1996 to 2003) is a scholarly address made at the Society's Annual Conference. Each year, a distinguished animal scientist is invited to the Annual Conference to make the address. The intention is that this prestigious lecture will contribute to maintaining the objectives of the Society and enhance the scientific and technical merit of the Conference.

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Livestock Improvement Corporation Lectures

1996 M. Georges - Perspectives for marker assisted selection in dairy cattle breeding

1997 M.J. Ulyatt - Can protein utilisation from pasture be improved?

1998 A.E. McClintock - Possible impact of new technologies on dairy cattle breeding

1999 W.J. Parker - Farm performance measurement - Linking monitoring to business strategy

2000 A.J.F. Webster - Sustaining fitness and welfare in the dairy cow

2001 M.C. Lucy - Reproductive physiology and management of high-yielding dairy cattle

2002 J.P. McInerney - Animal welfare: Ethics, economics and productivity

2003 B.S. Thorrold - The development of environmental best practices for intensive dairying

Landcorp Farming Lectures

2004 J.C. MacRae - Nutritional opportunities for longer-term, sustainable, ruminant production

2005 L.H. Baumgard - Regulating milk fat synthesis: potential on-farm applications of basic science

2006 J.A. Van Wyk - Face facts: drenching with anthelmintics for worm control selects for drug resistance - and no excuses!

2007 B.J. Hayes - Genomic selction for accelerated genetic gain in livestock

2008 P.R. Kenyon - A review of in-utero environmental effects on sheep production

2009 G.B. Martin - "Clean, green and ethical" animal reproduction: extension to sheep and dairy systems in New Zealand

2010 D.J. Garrick - Milestones in genetic prediction for applied livestock improvement