6 - 8 August 2007

Agriculture Australia Conference

Location: Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, VIC

For further information:
Contact: Rosemary Richards
Phone: 02 9427 6999
Email: aof@australianoilseeds.com
Website: www.agricultureaustralia.com.au

Research & Development Corporation: All

6 - 10 August 2007

Cotton Collective Week

Location: Narrabri
Contact: Rohan Boehm
Phone: (02) 6792 4088

Research & Development Corporation: CRDC

14 - 16 August 2007

Grain & Graze National Workshop

Location: Wagga Wagga, NSW
Contact: Gil Stewart
Phone: 0428 119 815
Web: http://www.grainandgraze.com.au/News_and_Events/Events/index.aspx 

Research & Development Corporation: LWA, MLA, AWI, GRDC

21 - 23 August 2007

AgQuip

Location: Gunnedah, NSW

For further information:
Contact: AgQuip
Phone: 02 6762 2399
Email: agquip@ruralpress.com
Website: http://agquip.farmonline.com.au/

Research & Development Corporation: GRDC

22 August 2007

ABARE Regional Outlook Conference - Geraldton

Contact: Erica Bruen
Phone: 02 6272 2303
Email: ebruen@abare.gov.au  
website: www.abareconomics.com/regional  

Research & Development Corporation: All

22 - 25 August 2007

2007 Queensland Landcare Conference

Location: Mackay, Qld

For further information:
Contact: Margaret Lane
Phone: 07 4951 4327
Email: mlane@orion-online.com.au
Website: www.landcare.org.au/Conference.htm 

Research & Development Corporation: All

19 August 2007

GRDC Grains Research Update for Growers

Location: Sports Club, Spring Ridge
Registration from 8:30am, Start 9am – Finish ~3:45pm.

Topics that will be presented include:

• Managing to optimise return on investment on the Liverpool Plains – economy of scale, fixed vs. variable costs, farming systems and managing financial risk 
• Summer crop comparison trials - regional sorghum, corn, sunflower, mungbean and other crop trials to improve crop performance and reliability
• Sorghum & sunflower agronomy trials - row spacing, nutrition and plant population
• Deep placement of phosphorus
• Soil biology - focus on local trials and research
• Seedbank dynamics and persistence of key northern region weeds - impact of seed dormancy, tillage / no-tillage, seed burial and implications for management 
• Canopy Management - Getting the rate and timing right for split N applications
• Early harvest research 
• Stripe rust - developments for management in 2007

Contact: John Cameron or Erica McKay
Email: updaten@tpg.com.au  
Phone: 02 9482 4930
Web: http://users.tpg.com.au/icanadsl/Updates.htm  

Research & Development Corporation: GRDC

1 August 2007

Better Farm IQ Course

Location: Esperance Civic Centre
Contact: Jessica Weeks
Email: info@cbh.com.au  
Telephone: 9454 0359
Further Information: www.cbhoperations.com.au  

The CBH Group will be holding a number of Better Farm IQ courses around the state in coming weeks.

Better Farm IQ is the CBH Group's on-farm quality assurance program that is flexible, easy to understand and can be applied across livestock and other farming enterprises

Research & Development Corporation: