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Pasture update | Bathurst, NSW

Grass-fed Cattle
Sheep
Goat
11 Oct 2017 | 08:30 AM
7 hours
$20. Includes morning tea and lunch.

Beef and sheep producers will have the opportunity to hear the latest in pasture and feedbase research at the Grassland Society of NSW Inc. Pasture Update funded by MLA and delivered in collaboration with Central Tablelands Local Land Services. 

Program

  • Joe Gebbels (MLA – TBC) – Key MLA pasture R&D investments
  • Susan Orgill (NSW DPI) – Soil limitations to pasture production – which ones are feasible to focus on
  • Belinda Hackney (Central West LLS) – Hardseeded legume species in pastures and rotations and setting legumes up for optimum nitrogen fixation
  • Fiona Leech (South East LLS) – Fertiliser cost effectiveness & soil microbial DNA results from the Alternative Fertiliser Project
  • John Piltz (NSW DPI) – Feed and fodder conservation value of moisture stressed crops, managing tropical grasses for livestock production

Lunch

  • Brett Littler (Central Tablelands LLS) – Farm Visit: Managing livestock in spring 2017 – getting the nutrition right
  • Bruce Watt (Central Tablelands LLS) – Farm Visit: Managing livestock in spring 2017 – getting animal health right
  • Bathurst district farm – Farm Visit: The use of confined feeding – the positives and negatives
Registration details

Registration:

Download the flyer and registration form here.

Register online here.

RSVP by 6 October 2017, for catering. Janelle Witschi, Email: secretary@grasslandnsw.com.au

Local contacts:

Clare Edwards M: 0428 435 615 E: clare.edwards@lls.nsw.gov.au

David Harbison M: 0408 820 467 E: dragriculture@activ8.net.au

Bathurst Bulldogs Rugby Club, Hereford St, Bathurst, NSW

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