| Best Platform Presentation |  Devan McGranahan, North Dakota State University | Patch-burning buffers forage resources and livestock performance to mitigate drought in the United States Great Plains |
Best Platform Presentation by a Young Scientist |  Anisha Dayaram, South African National Biodiversity Institute | National Vegetation Map 2021: Our goals and an opportunity for the GSSA to contribute to the structure of the next version |
| Norman Rethman Planted Pastures Award |  Craig Galloway, Trace & Save | Building soil carbon to improve water holding capacity |
| Best Poster Presentation |  Craig Morris, Agricultural Research Council API | Is a long hygroscopic awn an advantage to Themeda triandra in drier areas? |
| Best Research Proposal Poster |  Robyn Nicolay, University of KwaZulu-Natal | Grazing for carbon: Investigating soil, plant and ruminant interactions on carbon sinks in extensive mesic grassland and improved kikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum) pasture |
| Most Prolific Adjudicator |  Arend de Beer, University of Pretoria |