REGISTRATION OPTIONS
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
TUESDAY 14 JULY – GOULBURN SOLDIERS CLUB
3.30 pm Pre Conference Registrations
5.30 pmGrassland Society of NSW Annual General Meeting
6.30 pm Happy Hour and Canapes
5.30 pm Buses return to Goulburn Soldiers Club
6.30 pm Conference Dinner & Entertainment
(Robert Gorman – Bush poet)
No silage and hay awards in 2015
2015/16 Membership can be paid prior to conference registration.
For further information go to www.grasslandnsw.com.au
Member
Non
member
Full Conference package1
$260
$330
THURSDAY 16 JULY – GOULBURN SOLDIERS CLUB
8.00 am Registrations and Trade Displays
Full Conference package1
Student / Additional member
$200
8.30 am SESSION 2
Theme: Matching product to future markets
Conference single day rate2
Wednesday 15 July
$110
$170
9.25 am SESSION 1
Theme: Business profit drivers
• Which
breeding direction for sheep on the Southern Tablelands.
Phil Graham – Technical Specialist, Livestock Systems, NSW DPI, Yass
Conference single day rate3
Thursday 16 July
$110
$170
• O
pportunities to maximise livestock profitability.
John Webb Ware, Mackinnon Project, Faculty of Veterinary
Science, University of Melbourne
10.15 amTrade Displays and Morning Tea
• Genetics, production objectives and the farm business’s bottom line.
Grant Burbidge, “Connemara”, Tarcutta NSW
Conference Dinner only4
$ 75
$ 75
9.40 am SESSION 3
Bus tour only5
$ 75
$ 75
Theme: Maximising the returns from on-farm fertiliser investment
Please indicate your Bus tour
preference
DAY ONE
WEDNESDAY 15 JULY – GOULBURN SOLDIERS CLUB
8.00 am Registrations
9.00 am Welcome and Welcome to Country
David Harbison, President, Grassland Society of NSW
Representative of Pejar Local Aboriginal Land Council
10.45 am
• M
anaging the production potential of the soils of the Southern
Highlands and Central Tablelands – key messages from the
Landscan™ program.
Luke Pope, Senior Land Services Officer – Pastures, Local Land
Services – South East, Cooma
• New insights into phosphorus cycling in pastures: implications for
fertiliser management and for closing the phosphorus efficiency gap.
Richard Simpson, Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO,
Canberra
12.00 pmTrade Displays and lunch
1.00 pmBus Tours Depart Goulburn Soldiers Club to visit farms
in the following localities:
Tour A – Crookwell district
Visit “Rosedale” a mixed farming enterprise close to Crookwell, which
highlights award winning landscape rehabilitation work, established over
15 years. A feature of “Rosedale” is the successful integration of sustainable
farming practices in highly productive livestock and horticulture enterprises
of the region.
Tour B – Lake Bathurst district
Visit successful mixed farming operations in the Lake Bathurst district
that include innovative broadacre cropping enterprises. These properties
demonstrate successful adaptation of broadacre cropping to the Tableland
environment to complement and benefit livestock production systems.
Tour C – Tarago/Collector district
Visit the Woodlawn Bioreactor site located near Tarago. This was previously
an open-cut mine, but is now one of the largest bioreactor landfill projects
in the world. It features bio-energy production using energy recovered
from waste material to produce electricity; aquaculture utilising generated
energy for tropical fish farming; a 50 MW Windfarm harnessing natural wind
energy; and a 6,000 ha grazing operation producing wool and meat.
Conference options
(Please tick)
DAY TWO
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n-farm fertiliser planning – principles into practice.
Dr Jim Virgona – Graminus Consulting
A
or
n/a
B
or
C
SUB-TOTAL
10.20 am
I would like to attend the Annual
General Meeting on 14 July
YES
NO
10.50 am Trade Displays and Morning Tea
I would also like to pay my
2015/2016 Membership
$60
$25 (Student)
11.30 am SESSION 4
TOTAL
• Targeting fertiliser use to land capability.
Ollie Cay, “Pineleigh”, Bungarby NSW
Theme: Persistence of pasture species, sustainable pastures for the
Tablelands
Note: The Grassland Society of NSW is exempt from GST.
Full conference package includes conference sessions on both
days, conference proceedings, lunches, satchel, morning and
afternoon teas, bus tours, canapes, and conference dinner.
1 • Persistence of perennial species at Blayney.
David Harbison, D R Agriculture Pty Ltd, Molong
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razing management options to boost productivity and secure
healthy landscapes.
Warwick Badgery, Research Scientist, NSW DPI, Orange
• Panel session: Pasture persistence on the Tablelands
Single day rate (Wednesday) includes proceedings, satchel,
conference sessions, bus tour, lunch, morning and afternoon teas.
Rate does not include conference dinner.
2 3
1.00 pm Trade Displays and Lunch
1.45 pm SESSION 5
• Capitalising on the opportunities for agriculture in the Tablelands of
southern NSW – a farmer’s perspective.
Garry Kadwell, “Rosedale”, Crookwell NSW
ingle day rate (Thursday) includes proceedings, satchel,
S
conference sessions, lunch, morning and afternoon teas.
Conference dinner includes pre-dinner drinks (beer, wine and
soft drink only), canapes and two course meal.
4 5
Bus tour (includes tour booklet, lunch and afternoon tea.
2.15pm
• A
ngus Taylor MP (Member of Federal Parliament, electorate of
Hume)
3.15 pm Conference Close and Afternoon Tea
For further information please call Helen Burns for conference
program and presentations 0427 721 816 and Janelle Witschi,
for registrations 0408 612 235.
PAYMENT & REGISTRATION FORM
Conference registrations close Friday 10 July 2015
Cancellations must be received in writing before Friday 10 July 2015
Either register at Try Booking – www.trybooking.com/Booking/
BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=138032 or send a copy of this
registration and /or membership form and payment to:
The Secretary
The Grassland Society of NSW
PO Box 471 Orange NSW 2800
Fax (02) 6362 1556
ABN: 35 754 835 122 (The Grassland Society of NSW is exempt from GST)
If you have any queries or dietary requirements, please email
[email protected]
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OUR SPONSORS
The Grassland Society of NSW gratefully acknowledges
the financial support provided by the following
organisations and thanks them for their support of the
29th Annual Conference and 2015–16 Financial Year.
Premier Sponsors
29th Annual Conference
MAKING PASTURES PAY
14–16 July 2015
Local Land
Services
Goulburn Soldiers Club
15 Market Street, Goulburn NSW 2580
South East
Major Sponsors
(Please email [email protected] with your details if
paying by direct deposit)
Westpac Bank
Account Name: Grassland Society of NSW Conference Account
BSB: 032-833 Account Number: 353 720
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Corporate Sponsors
AusWest Seeds
Commonwealth Bank
Dow AgroSciences
Heritage Seeds
PGG Wrightson Seeds
Tablelands Farming Systems
Upper Murray Seeds
Valley Seeds
Wengfu Australia
For information on accommodation in Goulburn please go to
www.igoulburn.com/site/files/ul/data_text12/1431313.pdf for
approximate rates, star ratings and locations.
Accommodation options include the Goulburn Motor Inn,
Goulburn Central Motor Inn, Astor Hotel/Motel, Comfort Inn
Posthouse and Best Western Centretown.
www.grasslandnsw.com.au
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