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Future Gen Farming Seminar and Field Day, March 11-12 2020

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Seminar Program



    Wednesday March 11 2020

    7:30 Registration and coffee - Young Services Club Cloete Street, Young
    8:00 Rhonda Daly, Narelle Hunter
    Welcome & Setting your Intention for the Seminar
    8:30 Hugh Lovel
    Bringing your Soils to Life

    Maximising Biomass Production & Digestive Activity to Build Soil Carbon
    9:15 Joel Williams
    Plant Diversity – A driver of Soil Health

    Learn how the effects of more plant species diversity impacts the physical, chemical and biological aspects of the soil
    10:00 Morning Tea
    10:30 Rhonda Daly
    The Launch of NanoTECHAg

    New Technology in Australia for improved production
    10:40 YC Lim
    Organic Colloidal Concentrate

    A nano-structured new generation carrier tool to help with nutritional deficiencies, significantly enhancing the delivery and penetration efficacy of active compounds to nutrient management

    How to Reduce Herbicide, Pesticide & Fungicide Use
    11:30 YC Lim
    Trial data results of OCC

    Herbiciding, Disease Management, Nutritional Fertility
    12:00 Rhonda Daly
    Humus Composting 101 & Extracted Humus Compost Tea Extraction
    • Overview of Humus Compost Production including the five stages of production & the three measurement metrics
    • Extracted Humus Compost Tea Production & Trial Results
    12:45 Lunch
    1:30 Leave for Demonstration and Field Trip to Milgadara by bus
    2:00 Bill Daly, Rhonda Daly, Hugh Lovel
    Demonstation Aeromaster Compost Turner
    • Building a compost windrow
    • When to Turn - the three monitoring metrics Temperature, Carbon Dioxide & Moisture
    • What makes Humus Compost so different from other compost
    2:30 Bill Daly, Rhonda Daly, Hugh Lovel, YC Lim
    Demonstration Aeromaster Tea Extraction TE-500 Unit

    Setting up a Liquid Injection system

    3:00 Bill Daly, Hugh Lovel
    Visit Fingerboard Paddock

    Benefits of undersown crops and cover cropping

    • Soil Pit Profile - visual soil assessment
    • Assessing soil structure, colour, smell, soil life, plant rooting depths, nodulation carbon storage, water holding capacity assessment
    • DIY Test of Microbiometer
    • The importance of controlled rotational grazing & the benefits of long term perennial pastures
    • Chosing correct pasture species mix for your paddocks
    4:00 Bill Daly, Hugh Lovel, Rhonda Daly
    Visit Horse Paddock - Undersown Canola 2019

    Assess soil properties & root residues
    4:45 Narelle Hunter
    Managing your Mindset in Challenging Times
    5:30 Stephanie Cooke MP
    Steph Cooke MP to officially open new office
    6:00 Drinks and Refreshments
    6:30 Casual Barbecue dinner at Milgadara
    8:30 Travel by bus into YOUNG

    Thursday March 12 2020

    8:00 Doors open with Coffee - Young Services Club Cloete Street, Young
    8:30 Rhonda Daly
    Welcome
    8:45 Charles Massy
    Author - Australia's Anthropocene Crisis and Regenerative Solutions
    9:30 Rhonda Daly
    Understanding Your Soil
    • Understanding the physical, chemical and biological aspects of your soils
    • What no one will ever tell you when reading your soil tests
    • Building your tool box - designing programs for your soils
    10:15 Morning Tea
    10:45 Louisa Kiely - Carbon Farmers of Australia
    Soil Carbon Trading & Setting up a Soil Carbon Project
    11:30 Chris Hall - NSW Farmer of the Year
    Chris's findings and learnings how soil microbiology and humus are the key to soil & production improvement
    12:15 Hugh Lovel
    How Nitrogen works in the Soil

    The importance of getting nitrogen levels right for everything else to fall into place
    1:00 Lunch
    2:00 Rhonda Daly
    Establishing Regenerative Pasture & Cropping Programs
    • Bringing your soils to life after droughts & bushfires
    • Does Biological/Regnerative Ag Pay off - 3 years ABARE Financial Data
    2:45 Hugh Lovel, Louisa Kiely, Rhonda Daly, Chris Hall, Bill Daly, YC Lim
    Panel Discussion

    Questions to the Panel
    3:30 Participant activity - led by the Panel
    Designing your soil/cropping program with tools you have learned and how to practically implement them
    4:30 Adjourn