Vegie Leaders Wanted
The Vegetable Industry Strategic Leadership Course for 2009 commences on February 24 2008 in Devonport Tasmania, and concludes six months later in Canberra.
The program is being funded by Horticulture Australia and supported by AUSVEG and is being facilitated by Rural Training Initiatives.
The program requires successful applicants to come together as a group and attend nine days of learning. The nine days of the program are spread across 3 x 3 day residential.
The cost to the participant is $500 and out-of-pocket expenses. All of industry is invited to apply for the program from growers through to extension staff.
For more information, contact the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association on what 03 6332 1800 or email Fiona Gluszyk at TFGA.
Rural Diary - December 2008
Hit the Drought for 6 - Tas Tigers vs Qld Bulls
14 December
Bellerive Oval, Hobart
Rural Women’s Scholarships Close
15 December
Visit www.twia.org.au for more details
Bridgewater Sale
15 December
Bridgewater Saleyards, Bridgewater
Contact your local livestock agent
Tasmanian Innovation Workshop
The Innovation Development Early Assessment System (IDEAS) can be applied easily to assess the opportunity, the risks and the complexity of commercialising a new business idea.
This one day workshop is intended for individuals or businesses that have an idea for a new product, process or service and are interested in applying an assessment tool to determine its commercial viability.
IDEAS has been developed and is delivered by Associate Professor Jack English from the Australian Innovation Research Centre. The IDEAS workshop is interactive but does not include group work and your idea can remain strictly confidential.
Is your innovation ready to be commercialised? Find out the answer, by attending the next IDEAS Workshop:
When: Friday 13 February 2009, 9.00am - 5.00pm
Where: Peppers Seaport Hotel, 28 Seaport Boulevard, Launceston TAS
Cost: $55 (GST inclusive) which includes an IDEAS handbook, lunch & refreshments
Registrations Close: Friday 6 February 2009
For further information and to download a registration form visit Development Tas’s Website.
‘Wool’ you look at this!
Here’s a Christmas gift with a difference!
For our viewing pleasure, the Woodsdale-Levendale Museum committee present to us with the “Bare Bellies, Butts & All” calendar!
It costs $15.00 each (plus $5.00 if you want it posted). The funds raised from calendar sales go towards the construction of a Shearing Interprutation Center and Mens Shed at Woodsdale.
$1.00 from every calendar sold goes to the Royal Hobart Hospital Burns and Surgical Specialties Unit.
To place your orders e-mail Sue Atkinson, the Museum Manager.
P.S. I’ll shout the first person a calendar that tells me what is different with this picture…If you think you know, drop me a line.
Dohne Sheep Information Day
The owner/manager of Delmore Dohnes, Ross Jacobson, says that their doing ability has been very impressive through some very tough seasons.
He is keen to increase his flock numbers and given the Dohnes performance he is enthusiastic to also share his knowledge.
Ross is holding an Information Day and Ram Sale to be held on his Forcett property on the 29th of this month. RSVP’s are appreciated for catering purposes.
Download the flyer which includes directions.
Rural Diary - October 2008
Ranelagh Sale
8 October
Ranelagh Saleyards, Ranelagh
Contact your local Roberts livestock agent
Clearing Sale A/c Skelfield PTY LTD & TN Pickett
9 October
147 Picketts Road, Gawler
Contact Neville Peebles 0408 144 736
Campdraft
11 October
Powranna
Contact Lynne (03) 6248 9231 or Barry (03) 6265 1398
2008 Young Farmer of the Year
Winners of the Young Farmer Competition: Back: Tim Dobson (3rd), Adam Chugg (4th), Alan Prewer (6th), Front: Jamie Burns (2nd), Sarah Gatenby (1st), and Georgina Milkingstone (5th).
Recently I had the pleasure of judging the Ag Marketing module in the Motors Isuzu Trucks Tasmanian Young Farmer Competition held at Quercus Rural Youth Park (Agfest Site).
There were five Young Farmers selected from the North West, Northern and Southern regions to compete for the Young Farmer title. During the day those fifteen competitors were then tested on ten areas:
Call for Dairy Benchmarking Entries
The TIAR Dairy Centre is seeking participants to provide information for benchmarking their farm performance for the 2007-08 season.
This can be done through entering the Impact ANZ Dairy Business of the Year Award or as a separate exercise for farmers who do not wish to take part in the Award.
In both cases, dairy farmers receive valuable information on the financial and technical performance of their dairy business.
Free place to Hobart’s ABARE Conference
In my last post I mentioned the ABARE Regional Outlook Conference. I attended the one in Lauceston last year and got heaps from it.
It was a wonderful opportuniy to meet some new contacts and access information.
I got so much out of if that I decided that Rural Connections will shout one person to attend the conference in Hobart on the 8th of October at The Old Woolstore.
There are 12 guest speakers on topics ranging from nuffield scholars to climate change- and I must say that it looks very interesting. View the program
Drop us a line – in 50 words or less and tell us why you want to attend the conference for your chance to win.
ABARE Regional Conference
With 12 speakers across four sessions, this is your chance to access the latest commodity data and industry trends for your region at the Hobart Regional Outlook conference on Wednesday 8 October.
Hear from key speakers including:
- ABARE’s Phillip Glyde on the road ahead for commodities
- Tony Pearson, ANZ, with a banker’s perspective on interest rates, and where to from here?
- Rob Goudswaard, ANZ exploring how financial institutions can contribute to sustainable communities
- Nuffield scholar Ronald Thompson, on keeping farmers in agriculture
- Melanie Ford, ABARE with climate change – preparing for carbon trading
- Ian Barnes-Keoghan, Bureau of Meteorology on coping with short and long-term climate change
- Johann Joubert, New Life Industries, discussing hydroponic farming: benefiting the environment
Download the conference program and registration form.
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