What's Limiting? Interpreting Soil Tests, Simply
WHEN: Wednesday 17th March 2010
WHERE: On a phone near you
TIME: 1.00pm
Jim Shovelton, agronomist with Mike Stephens & Associates will be talking about interpreting soil tests.
The high cost of fertiliser and pasture establishment necessitates being choosy about the right products to apply to meet soil and plant needs.
This phone seminar will run through how to interpret a soil test to identify limitations for plant growth to help make the most cost effective decisions on topdressing pastures. It will cover how to identify whether the main nutrients of phosphorus, potassium and sulphur are limiting, whether responses will be limited by soil problems like acidity, salinity or soil structure. How do you use measures of phosphorus buffering index, organic carbon and cation exchange capacity?
Flock Health updates and alerts from around the state will also be heard at the end of the session - there will a brief report from David Rendell from David Rendell & Associates, Hamilton, Grant Richards from Para-Site Diagnostic Services, Benalla and Robert Suter, Project Leader of Disease Surveillance - Sheep with DPI
To register for the phone seminar call 03 5355 0531
Profitable Perennial Pastures - EverGraze & Perennial Pasture Systems
WHEN: Tuesday 23rd March 2010
WHERE: Gum San, 31 - 33 Lambert St, ARARAT
TIME: 9.30am
Speakers include:
- Fiona Robertson from PVI Hamilton, role of soil carbon in productive pasture systems
- Lisa Warn from McKinnon Project, Phalaris pasture management and making the most of phalaris
- Michael Friend from Charles Sturt University Wagga, Improving reproductive performance
- Jim Virgona from Charles Sturt University Wagga, Lessons from pasture performance in central NSW and perennial mix or monoculture
- Andrew Speirs from MS&A, Aluminum toxicity in phalaris and other perennials and why we really need lime to establish phalaris
- Tim Leeming Balmoral producer and consultant, Putting it on farm
Contact: Rob & Debbie Shea, 0438 521 357 or 03 5352 1357
BWBL FEWETURE Farming Annual Conference
WHEN: 23rd June 2010
WHERE: Bendigo Exhibition Centre
TIME: 7.45am with registrations for an 8.30am start
Speakers and sessions to be finalised.
Contact Lyndon Kubeil - Phone 03 5761 1649
