2009/2010 CROPPING EVENTS DIARY – SOUTHERN REGION
ISSUED – MAY 2009
Date
Event
Venue
June 17
Women’s Agronomy Group
BCG
June
(TBC)
July 1
WANTFA Regional Workshop
WA
ABARE Regional Outlook
Conference
Birchip Cropping Group Expo
Dinner
Birchip Cropping Group Grains
Research Expo
WANTFA Post Seeding Field Walk
Armidale NSW
July 1
Ag-Grow Field Day
Community Leisure
Centre, Birchip VIC
Birchip P –12 School
VIC
Meckering &
Cunderdin WA
Emerald, QLD
July 14
VNTFA Winter Crop Walk
North East VIC
July 16
VNTFA Winter Crop Walk
Western VIC
July 17
VNTFA Winter Crop Walk
Wimmera VIC
July 21
VNTFA Winter Crop Walk
Southern VIC
July 21
Healthy Soils Workshop – Soil
Biology & Organic Matter
VNTFA Winter Crop Walk
Donald, VIC
Skipton VIC
July 27-29
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
MacKillop Sponsors & Members
Dinner
Mudgee Small Farm Field Day
Australian Grain Industry
Conference
2009 National Fodder Conference
July 28
Hart Field Site Group Winter Walk
July 28
Healthy Soils Workshop – Soil
Biology & Organic Matter
July 2
July 8
(TBC)
July 9-11
July 23
Jul 23
Jul 24
July 24
July 24-25
July 27-29
Mallee VIC
Launceston TAS
Struan House SA
Mudgee, NSW
Melbourne VIC
Fremantle WA
Charlton, VIC
Contact
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Kaye Phillips-Webb
0427 223 395
www.abare.gov.au
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Kaye Phillips-Webb
0427 223 395
www.aggrow.com.au/in
dex.asp
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Krysteen McElroy
0408 655 108
www.arec.com.au/
Rosemary Richards
02 9427 6999
Colin Peace
03 9530 2199
Monica Trengove
0417 803 386
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Date
July 29
Event
Venue
2009 Conservation Agriculture
Conference
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
Soil to Grain Workshop
Dubbo NSW
Griffith NSW
Aug 10-11
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
Nyngan Ag Expo
Aug 10-13
LRCP Workshop/Conference
Upper EP SA
Aug 11
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
MacKillop Group Study Tour –
Precision Ag & Irrigation Systems
Commonwealth Bank AgQuip Field
Day
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
Women’s Agronomy Group
Cummins SA
GRDC Grower Update
Southern Region
MSF Kerribee Field Day
West Wyalong
NSW
Euston NSW
Sep
(TBC)
Sep 1
WANTFA Regional Workshop
WA
MSF Waikerie Field Day
Waikerie SA
Sep 2
VNTFA Spring Crop Walk
North East VIC
Sept 3
Rural Women’s Conference
Condobolin
Sep 4
VNTFA Spring Crop Walk
Mallee VIC
Sept 4
Adelaide, SA
Sept 4
Precision Ag Conference and
SPAA AGM
CWFS Field Day
Sep 7
VNTFA Spring Crop Walk
Southern VIC
Sept 7-8
Canberra, ACT
Sep 9
7th Australian Controlled Traffic
Farming Conference
VNTFA Spring Crop Walk
Sep 9
WANTFA Spring Field Day
Meckering WA
Sep 10
7th Annual VNTFA Conference
VIC
Jul 29
Aug 4
Aug 5
Aug 6
Aug 12
Aug 16-21
Aug 18-20
Aug 19
Aug 20
Aug 20
Aug 26
Aug 27
Nhill VIC
Wimmera (tbc)
Tocumwal NSW
Nyngan NSW
Minnipa SA
SE QLD
Gunnedah, NSW
Jamestown SA
Loxton SA
BCG, VIC
Merriwagga, NSW
Wimmera VIC
Contact
Neville Gould
0427 452 488
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
www.nynexpo.com
Geoff Thomas
0419 781 469
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Krysteen McElroy
0408 655 108
www.farmonline.com.
au/events/agquip
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Jon Lamb
08 8362 5417
Nicole Dimos
0427 219 103
Kaye Phillips-Webb
0427 223 395
Nicole Dimos
0427 219 103
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Kirstie Murphy
0437 422 000
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Sally Brown
07 3201 2808
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Kaye Phillips-Webb
0427 223 395
Vanessa Grieger
03 5382 0422
Date
Sep 10
Sep 10-11
Sept 13-16
Sep 14-16
Sep 15
Event
Venue
Birchip Cropping Group Main Field
Day
Precision Agriculture in Australasia
Watchupga Field
Day Site, VIC
University of New
England, Armidale,
NSW
14th Australian Barley Technical
Symposium (ABTS)
Novotel Twin
Waters, Sunshine
Coast, QLD
Ballarat VIC
th
16 Australian Research Assembly
on Brassicas
Hart Field Day
Narrabri, NSW
Sep 16
15th NSW Biennial Noxious Weeds
Conference – Old and New –
Changes in Weed Management
Minnipa Ag Centre Field Day
Sep 17
LEADA Spring Field Day
Lower EP, SA
Sep 18
Morchard SA
Sep 18
Upper North Farming Systems
Field Day
CWFS Field Day
Sept 22
CWFS Field Day
Weethalle, NSW
Sept 24
CWFS Field Day
Tottenham, NSW
Sep 29Oct 1
Sept 30
YP Field Days
Paskeville SA
CWFS Field Day
Condo ARAS
Oct 1
CWFS Field Day
Wirrinya, NSW
Oct 7
CWFS Field Day
Oct 8
Southern Research &
Demonstration Site Field Day
Hart Bros Seeds Field Day
Rankin Springs,
NSW
St Arnaud Field Day
Site, VIC
NSW
Oct 28
Hart Field Site Group Spring
Twilight Walk
Australian National Field Days
Birchip Cropping Group Members
Only Field Day
Women’s Agronomy Group
Orange NSW
Hopetoun WUE
Research Site, VIC
BCG
Oct 28-29
MacKillop Field Days
Sept 15-17
Oct 14
Oct 15
Oct 20-22
Oct 23
Minnipa SA
Euabalong, NSW
Contact
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
David Lamb
02 6773 3565
Mark Trotooer
02 6773 2465
Kate
abts09@yrd.com.au
www.abts.com.au
Angela Worthy
03 5362 2111
Monica Trengove
0417 803 386
Heather Apps
0427 080 567
Naomi Scholz
08 8680 6233
Kieran Wauchope
08 8688 3409
Charlton Jeisman
08 8664 1408
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Elaine Bussenschutt
08 8827 2040
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Lisa McFadyen
02 6895 1001
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Bernard Hart
0428 247 206
Monica Trengove
0417 803 386
www.anfd.com.au
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Margaret O’Keefe
03 5492 2787
Krysteen McElroy
0408 655 108
2010
Date
Feb 16-17
Event
Venue
GRDC Adviser Update
Southern Region
GRDC Adviser Update
Southern Region
GRDC Adviser Update
Northern Region
Agribusiness Crop Update
Western Region
GRDC Adviser Update
Southern Region
GRDC Adviser Update
Northern Region
2010 Australasian Milling
Conference
CICILS IPTIC Convention
Wagga Wagga
NSW
Ballarat VIC
June 21-24
Australian Summer Grains
Conference (ASGC)
RACV Royal Pines,
Gold Coast, QLD
July 26-28
Australian Grain Industry
Conference
19th World Congress of Soil
Science
Melbourne VIC
Feb 23-24
Feb 23-24
Feb 23-24
Mar 3-4
Mar 3-4
Apr 13-15
May 1-4
Aug 1-6
Dubbo NSW
Perth WA
Adelaide SA
Goondiwindi QLD
Melbourne VIC
Brisbane, QLD
Brisbane, QLD
Contact
Matt McCarthy
03 5441 6176
Matt McCarthy
03 5441 6176
John Cameron
02 9482 4930
Greg Shea
08 9081 3112
Matt McCarthy
03 5441 6176
John Cameron
02 9482 4930
Graeme Lukey
03 9819 1433
Gavin Gibson
02 4997 6468
Kate
asgc10@yrd.com.au
Rosemary Richards
02 9427 6999
www.ccm.com.au/soil
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