When:

Friday 23^rd September, 2011

Where:

Kyneton Racecourse (entrance off Lennox Street)

Time:

9:00 am to 3:20 pm

RSVP:

by phoning Clare at the Grassland Office on 03 5433 5324 or by emailing the office at grasslands (see link at bottom of page)

Cost:

$20 members

$40 non-members

Program:

see below:

9:00 am

Registrations

9:30 am

Introduction GSSA

9:40 am

Cam Nicholson - Woady Yaloak Catchment Group

Issues around alternative fertilisers and how do you assess how they work for you.

10:30 am

Stuart McColl - Cesar Consulting

Integrated Pest Management, in pastures. What we need to be looking out for this spring.

11:20 am

Allen Newman - Research Manager Heritage Seeds

Developing acid soil and grazing tolerant lucerne’s for South Eastern Australia.

12:00 pm

Board Bus with Lunch (lunch included)

12:20 am

Arrive at the O’Sullivan’s property “Theadon”, Pastoria

12:35 pm

Lisa Warn, Senior Consultant & Agronomist, Mackinnon Group, University of Melbourne

EverGraze supporting site – pasture species for prime lamb production and establishment of phalaris on acid soils.

Michael O’Sullivan, producer “Theadon”, Pastoria.

Michael Joss, Territory Manager, Seedmark

Perennial pasture species trial – featuring varieties of phalaris, cocksfoot, fescue and perennial ryegrass.

Lisa Warn, Mackinnon

Using Poultry litter as an alternative fertiliser.

3:00 pm

Board Bus to return to Kyneton

3:20 pm

Finish

Tags: Pasture Update

Tags: Branch

More than 100 people turned out for the Baynton paddock walk held on the 11th March 2009; the Baynton district is in central Victoria, about 20 km north east of Kyneton.

The theme for the day was "Getting pastures back on track" as their persistence and yields were struggling after the run of dry years; for some locals, this issue took on the added perspective of the effects of the recent Redesdale fire on their pastures.

Tags: Bush Fire, Recovery