PROFESSIONAL, skills and business development events are shooting up like well-watered field peas, with events in person and online being run during spring.
The always-busy Grains Research and Development Corporation has a range of offerings with an online event set from 1pm on Wednesday 16 September.
Titled Making every spray pass count, Bill Gordon from Bill Gordon Consulting is headlining the session with a focus on, “Effective summer weed control”.
“Bill will explain how nozzle selection, spray quality, boom height, travel speed, weather conditions and sprayer setup influence spray performance,” a statement from GRDC said.
“Drawing on his extensive industry experience, Bill will highlight common causes of poor application and provide simple, practical adjustments that can improve coverage and efficacy.”
Less than 24 hours later and also online, the GRDC are running a session called Pinpointing frost damage across your paddocks.
Going from 11am on 17 September, Randall Donohue from the CSIRO and Tim Neale of Data Farming will be talking about dealing with frost.
Finally on the same day but from 1pm the GRDC are running an online session with Tim Pilkington from Southern Ag Management titled Busy running the farm; to creating time for building the business.
For more info on any of the GRDC sessions contact 03 5441 6176 or email admin@orm.com.au.
Meanwhile, Local Land Services has a number of in person events set for locations across Cabonne Shire and further afield during the next few months.
Cudal will host a sub-clover, lucerne and perennial grass variety trial walk from 9.30am to 11am This Thursday 10 September.
The Central West Mixed Farming Forum is set for Wellington on Wednesday 16 September from 9am to 3pm and features a range of speakers.
The include Tony Swan from the CSIRO, Dr Jill Kelly of AHN Consulting, Dr Jess Wallace and Richard Meyer from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Greg Condon of WeedSmart, and Rohan Leach and Tim Wright from the Central West branch of Local Land Services.
On 20 October between 10am and 12pm at Cowra, Matt Newell, Richard Hayes and Matt Pierce will be part of an event titled The acid test, pastures research results.
And 4 November from 8.30am to 10am at Luke Kerin’s farm in Yoval will host Local Land Services drought adoption officer Brett Littler talking about paddock weighing for cattle and is it worth it.
For more information or to book into any of the LLS events head to the organisation’s Central West webpage via bit.ly/4cuaxyH.