Roger : Welcome back. Telford Farm Training Institute began in 1964 and last year was merged with Lincoln University. Speaking to me about the potential of the merger is Director of Telford Division at Lincoln University, Associate Professor Charley Lamb. Charley welcome to the programme. Thanks for speaking with us. Charley : That's OK Roger. Roger : Can you give us a brief outline of Telford's history? Charley : It started in '63 under an act of parliament, under the Telford Act. The first students came in '64 and its been running since that time under different sort of structures in the sense of being a self contained, farm training institute right up until the time when effectively it became a polytechnic in 1990 and it was the smallest polytechnic in New Zealand. And subsequent to that Lincoln became involved with it in 2010 and it became a division of Lincoln on 1 January 2011. Charley : Yes. It is a conventional farm training institute in the sense of teaching agriculture. Obviously that has threads here at Telford with our nine hundred and fifty hectare farm. We have dairy, deer and sheep so it has a traditional agricultural focus but as well as that, Telford has broadened into the areas of equine, apiary, horticulture, forestry so we're really, to use the modern day parlance, really a primary industry training centre, more so than just purely an ag-training centre. Roger : What has the relationship with Lincoln University meant for Telford?