Full program for both days has been released - see below!
Registrations are now OPEN! Click on the buttons below to register your attendance at one or both of our Spring Field Days.
With two days, and two locations of great presenters, interesting trials and a chance for a great catchup with your neighbors over a BBQ, you won't want to miss these!
Green Range - Thursday, 25th of July
2.00 pm – Assessing the carryover nitrogen and drought resilience benefits of vetch – Keith Gundill & Gustavo Boitt (CSBP) -34.353139, 118.410111
3.15 pm – Where to with barley & wheat? Cereal NVTs South Stirling with AGT, Intergrain & RAGT
4.00 pm -Alion Fence line Residual Herbicide site – Mitch Tuffley/James Lydon (Bayer Cropscience) -34.5709914, 118.3238016
5.15 pm – Drinks & Dinner at Green Range Country Club
2.00 pm – Where to next with barley & wheat? Cereal NVTs Kendenup with Intergrain & Dan Fay (See map below with directions) -34.462042, 117.524615
2.45 pm - Mateno Complete demonstration (Ryegrass and Broadleaf weeds in cereals) – Mitch Tuffley (Bayer Cropscience)
3.40 pm – Nitrogen Use Efficiency in the HRZ? GRDC Riskwise Trial Site (Dan Fay) (30 min)
5.00 pm – Drinks & dinner at the Kendenup Country Club
We’re topping both days off with community bbqs and drinks at the on us! Bring your family and neighbors along for a great afternoon!
Please RSVP by emailing your name and the number of people attending the BBQ to office@scfarmers.org.au. See you there!
This claying workshop is designed to give you information to increase the efficiency of your claying operation. It’s an expensive activity, and some prior consideration and preparation can really pay off. The workshop will be facilitated by David Hall, a Principal Research Scientist (Soil Management) with DPIRD who has extensive knowledge in claying, with much of his initial research kicking off the claying movement in the Esperance Region. He’ll guide you through managing clay pit variation, getting the clay rate right for your scenario and discuss spreading and incorporation options.
This claying workshop is designed to give you information to increase the efficiency of your claying operation. It’s an expensive activity, and some prior consideration and preparation can really pay off. The workshop will be facilitated by David Hall, a Principal Research Scientist (Soil Management) with DPIRD who has extensive knowledge in claying, with much of his initial research kicking off the claying movement in the Esperance Region. He’ll guide you through managing clay pit variation, getting the clay rate right for your scenario and discuss spreading and incorporation options.
The event is brought to you by the GRDC, hosted by Stirlings to Coast Farmers and supported by GIWA.
This is a great opportunity to hear from a large range of agricultural experts, researchers and farmers, both local and from across the state covering the latest in grains export, weed, pest and disease management, crop nutrition, soil amelioration and farm emission minimisation, across 14 sessions.
Data analytics is increasingly being seen as an important tool for farmers to improve their enterprises. Modern technology, including real-time soil moisture sensors & satellite imagery, when combined with in-season paddock data and evaluated with advanced analytic techniques, has the potential to change the way farmers make decisions in their farming business.
This workshop will explore and discuss the data analysed through the Stirlings to Coast Farmers & Liebe group project, the potential to use different technologies to meet the future information needs of farmers and discuss opportunities for development & improvement to assist in solving real-world problems.
Afternoon tea and welcome at 2:30pm, the workshop begins at 3pm and will finish with a sundowner at 5pm. This is a FREE event!
For more information or to register your attendance, please contact
Philip Honey on 0428 768 589 or philip.honey@scfarmers.org.au.
Farmers and advisors are invited to visit the GRDC/GGA Amelup frost trial site where, following recent frosts at the site, the impact of time of sowing on frost severity across various crop types (cereals, legumes and canola) will be discussed.
A light breakfast will be provided.
RSVP Dan Fay 0498 278 177 Lizzie von Perger 0448 888 265
*PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND PROGRAM FOR EASTERN SPRING FIELD DAY
SCF's double Spring Field Days program is out now!!! Yes, you heard right - double Spring Field Days! This year we are holding TWO Spring Field Days - one in the Eastern membership area and the other in the Western membership area. Members are welcome to attend either one or both days!
Each day will start with registration and a handful of presentations at the respective Country Clubs. Attendees are then encouraged to jump on the bus for a look at some of the exciting field research happening in the area followed by optional drinks and dinner/Sundowner BBQ back at the Club.
All SCF Members and Sponsors are welcome free of charge. SCF Members are strongly encouraged to bring a friend free of charge to introduce them to the SCF community.
For more info & to RSVP for the EASTERN event:
https://SCFSFDEAST.eventbrite.com.au
For more info & to RSVP for the WESTERN event:
Interested in knowing more about the historical, seasonal and future climate at your location to help inform decisions for your farm business?
The Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) tool is being developed to help Australian farmers to adapt to climate variability and related trends and thereby increasing the viability of their businesses. Developed in collaboration between the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO, the CSA platform has been made possible by funding from the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund (FDF).
SCF are hosting Ashley Harkin and Allyson Williams from the Climate Services for Agriculture project in Albany THIS Friday, August 26, for a chat with local growers about the tool. This is your opportunity to have feedback into the development of the tool to ensure its relevance and usefulness to growers.
The workshop will be held at the Retravision Stadium, Centennial Park, Albany from 9am-12pm on Friday August 26.
Please get in touch with Kathi at SCF on 0408 418 531 or kathi.mcdonald@scfarmers.org.au if you would like to know more or to RSVP. Morning tea is supplied so RSVPs are appreciated.
We are hosting our first of two Post Seeding Field Walk & Community BBQ the first Thursday of July, sundowner drinks and BBQ are all provided.
7th July @ 3:30pm - 5:15pm onwards, Kojaneerup South
All welcome (members, non-members, industry)
Please note we are also holding our second Post Seeding Field Walk & Community BBQ in Nunijup on the 21st July - more information to come.
The FarmTech Planning – Making your data work for you workshop is an interactive workshop.
"FarmTech Planning – making your data work for you" is a face-to-face workshop helping participants learn more about the new and current technologies available to them, as well as helping you create your own FarmTech adoption plan.
Hosted by Brooke Sauer (IntellectAg), with the addition of external AgTech & Regional Connectivity specialists, this full day event will cover a wide-range of topics, including:
How to get started: Why we need to digitise farm records and information? What things should we look for and what should be be getting into right now. How do we actually get started on the AgTech journey?
Productivity, efficiency & improvements: how to measure and manage farm productivity, Impact of current resources, and finalising a personalised farm tech plan.
Farm Connectivity: There is an internet connection solution available for everyone.
AgTech implementation: Lessons and learning from AgTech providers to make the most of your farm-data and make adoption easier.
Participants will have a great opportunity to learn and refine how to think, relate, implement & benefit from the use of technology on farm, and where technology could help fill the gaps.
Places are limited for this fully catered, farm producer event. For more information, please contact SCF Smart Farms Coordinator Philip Honey on philip.honey@scfarmers.org.au.
This workshop is an extension of the AgriFutures Producer Technology Uptake Program and is brought to you by Stirlings to Coast Farmers, Rural Edge, IntellectAg & AgriFutures Australia.
SCF's Trials Review Day is no longer being held in person at Sounness Park.
The presentations will now be shared through a series of videos with each of the presenters in the program having their own video to watch through YouTube. These videos will be available for viewing at any time you please.
We will be sharing the links to such on our social platforms, website and emails so you don't miss the presentations you were looking for!
Monday August 16
Motel Le Grande, 479 Albany Hwy, Albany WA 6330
9:00am - 3:00pm
Morning Tea and Lunch Provided
Please RSVP for catering purposes by the 7th August
Sam Jeffries, 0422 3322 12 - samantha.jeffries@scfarmers.org.au
SCF have organised a Rural Edge Farm Safety Workshop, confirmed for Wednesday August 11 at the Mount Barker Community Resource Centre.
This is an interactive workshop designed to get you started on improving farm safety and building a system. This workshop will assist you to establish your safety priorities and provides clear templates and guidelines to get you started or take your safety up a notch.
Topics covered include:
Laws and Penalties
Employer and Employee responsibilities
Tools to break down resistance
Goals of a Farm Safety System
Safety Basics
Hazard Identification
Standard Policies
Safe Work Instructions
Take 5 concept
Safety Culture
Staff Inductions
Visitors and Contractors
Checklists and Templates for getting started
Workshop duration: Each workshop in this program runs for one day - 9.00am until 3pm (morning tea and lunch provided).
Workshop cost: $495 for the first person and $250 for every additional person in a farm business.
Register: head to https://ruraledge.org.au/workshops/farm-safety/?fbclid=IwAR3w0JZCyM1NBeEQXWpGDjKUsl_6sLlPqL0ETbyvBWcZbyr9EKvFWc2fFWI
RSVP to Sam Jeffries - samantha.jeffries@scfarmers.org.au
For more information on this course please contact Nathan Dovey, 0429 468 030 - ceo@scfarmers.org.au or click the on the link below:
*please note the pricing has been updated and hence what is shown on the website is incorrect
Confinement Feeding Workshop
Industry Update - Nick Fazekas (Elders General Manager) (March 30 only)
Introduction to confinement feeding with client case studies - Pip Houghton (Thomas Elder Consulting)
Nutrition in Confinement - Dr. Michael Wilkes (Thomas Elder Institute)
Pen Design. Specifications and degrees of automation - Pip Houghton (Thomas Elder Consulting)
Confine feeding – Why clients have chosen to confine feed? Economics of on ground examples. - Mark Allington (Icon Ag)
Please rsvp to either Nathan Dovey (ceo@scfarmers.org.au or 0429 468 030) or Hannah Gaffney (hannah-gaffney@elders.com.au or 0450 254 800) for the Confinement feeding workshop, and to Nathan only for the Crop Sequence Workshop.
