Proceedings of the 14th Annual Forum

Proceedings of the 14th Murrumbidgee Landcare Annual Forum, in collaboration with the Kyeamba Valley Landcare Group.

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Ladysmith Hall - 26th October 2011

Field Trip, farm walks From Ladysmith Hall by bus to Jim and Helen Dumaresq’s farm at Ladysmith, then on to Andrew Dumaresq’s place, to view work done over the past 25 years in groundwater management and salinity control.

Peter Lawson, Chair, Kyeamba Valley Landcare Group & Professor Ted Wolfe, Chair, Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc

Chair: Hazel McInerney - 3D-Ag Pty Ltd

Speakers
Jim Dumaresq - local farmer
Syd Clarke - local farmer

Greg Summerell and Tony Bernardi – Office of Environment and Heritage

» Valley hydrology and salt management ( 2.4 MB)

Chair: John Friend - DPI Carbon Specialist

Speakers
Mark Conyers - DPI Research Scientist in plant nutrition and soil management.

» The reality of soil C? ( 82 KB)

Keynote: Terry McCosker - Principal, Resource Consulting Services, pioneer in Carbon Trading.

» Carbon Farming - the future ( 2 MB)

Gus Sharpe - President Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups, MD Carbon Innovation Pty Ltd.

» Carbon Farming Implications ( 448 KB)

Guest speaker: Professor Stuart Hill

» You, Me, Them & the Landscape ( 5.2 MB)

The evening was hosted by Riverina Bluebell and Kyeamba Vally Landcare Group. Welcome by Peter Lawson, Chair, Kyeamba Valley Landcare Group. Guest speaker introduced by Chris Willow, founding member and deputy Chair of Riverina Bluebell.

Ladysmith Hall - 27th October 2011

Chair: Pat Murray

Speakers
Tony McLeish - Co-ordinator, Conservation Management Network.

( 1.9 MB)

Jacinta Christie - DPI Project Officer, Cross Property Project

» The GBW Cross-Property Project ( 1 MB)

Peter Lawson - farmer, Chair Kyeamba Valley Landcare Group

Chair: Professor Stuart Hill

Speakers
John Friend - DPI NRM

» What the DPI is doing ( 947 KB)

Danny Flanery – farmer, winner Primary Producer, NSW Landcare Awards 2011

» Boorowa Flats ( 474 KB)

Graham Hand - CEO Stipa, Holistic Management Educator, farmer

» Rethinking the balance in our farming ( 2.8 MB)

John Francis – Acting CEO of Murrumbidgee CMA

( 2.6 MB)

Chair: Peter Cregan

Speaker
Jeff Hoffman - farmer from Lockhart

» Farming and mining, an uneasy future? ( 545 KB)

Facilitator: Professor Stuart Hill