For further information phone Kaye Phillips-Webb, Communications Manager, on 0427 223 395 or email kaye@wantfa.com.au
To Register Please Call Adrienne Brown, on 64887465 or email admin@wantfa.com.au for a registration form.
Discounted WANTFA membership for all attendees!
Highlights
Disc Seeder Book Launch - Day 1
Farmready Course on - Day 2
You must allow five (5) working days for your application to be processed. There is no guarantees of approval if you do not allow the five (5) working days.
This 'Pre-Approval' must be granted prior to the commencement of the course to receive a FarmReady Reimbursement Grant. You are responsible for any outlays made before receiving Pre-Approval.
Mike Ashworth
- Disc seeding in Zero-till farming Systems
- A review of technology and paddock issue
10.05 - 10.40am
Deane Aynsley
- Grower Experiences
- Disc Seeding
10.45 - 11.15am
Morning Tea
11.20 - 12.20pm
Graham Betts
- Matching the sprayer to the rest
of the farm machinary
and
Garth Wickson - Does shifting to a coarse spray quality
reduce herbicide efficiency?
12.30 - 1.55pm
Lunch
2.00 - 3.00pm
Garren Knell - Grower Experiences
- Economics of PA
and
Roger Mandel
- Myth Busting Precision Agriculture, the
facts and a way forward
3.05 - 3.35pm
Afternoon Tea
3.40 - 4.45pm
Ken Flower
- Is Mouldboard Ploughing an option
for the long term No-Till Trial
and
John Baker (New Zealand)
- Biological Interactions between
no-tillage machines, soils and seeds
Annual Dinner
6.30pm
Pre-Dinner drinks
6.30pm
WANTFA Annual Dinner - Main Marquee
Day 2
8.30 - 9.30am
Annual General Meeting- Main Marquee
9.45 - 10.05am
Lance Turner - Chaff Carts and Weed Management
10.10 - 10.50am
Owen Brownley & Colin Hutchinson -Tramline farming and weed seed management
10.55 - 11.25am
Ray Harrington
- Harrington Seed Destructor
11.30 - 11.50am
Peter Newman
- Putting numbers to destroying weed
seed at harvest - case studies
1.00pm
onwards
Farm Ready Course
Main Marquee—Registration
A valuable training course for grain growers that have adopted or are considering adoption of a disc seeding, zero-tillage farming system. The half day workshop provides growers with the latest technical engineering information on disc seeders and will assist growers achieve the full benefit from high stubble, minimal disturbance farming systems. Growers will be provided with the skills to optimise seed placement, herbicide efficiency, fertilizer placement and soil moisture to improve overall crop performance. Participants that complete the course will be given a comprehensive review manual (written by course presenters) covering several aspects of zero-tillage farming systems in further detail.
In July each year WANTFA holds a Post Seeding Field Walk at the WANTFA Meckering Technology Demonstration Site 135km east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. This Field Walk gives growers and researchers an early look at the trials and research being conducted at the site for the season. There is a chance to look at early performance and follow the progression of the trials at the WANTFA Spring Field Day in September, and agronomists can preview trials so they can encourage their clients to attend the major field day.
For more information contact Mike Ashworth, WANTFA Research Manager, 96227557.
Throughout the year, WANTFA holds a series of informative seminars and field walks on a range of no till and conservation cropping topics. If we arrange international and interstate visitors, we may also arrange informal meetings so our members can gain access to their information first hand. Visiting speakers include farmers, agronomists, representatives of government agencies and scientists. The events are held in regional centres to give farmers easy access to the information. Watch this space for future events as they become available.
For further information phone Kaye Phillips-Webb Communications Manager on 0427 223 395.
WANTFA will be holding a series of regional workshops across all agricultural areas of WA to highlight specific technical issues and to assist growers to make the move to the no-till farming system. Workshops are targeted at grower groups and offer industry partners the opportunity to directly communicate key messages to targeted audiences of farmers and agribusiness. Workshops will be held both North and South of Western Australia.
Workshops and Bus Tours are scheduled for May and October 2010.
For further information phone Kaye Phillips-Webb Communications Manager on 0427 223 395.
