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Ag Update - Dec 2018
The Northern Tablelands LLS Sustainable Agriculture Team would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas!!!
What's coming up in December and the new year
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10th December - Pasture Identification and Management walk and talk at Tenterfield. Held at Steinbrook Hall from 8:30am - 12:30pm with Dr Judy Earl, Jeff Lowien and Georgie Oakes. To RSVP contact Georgie Oakes georgie.oakes@lls.nsw.gov.au or 0429 310 264
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14th December - Bonshaw Community Event: This event is sponsored by Inverell Council and is for drought affected farmers in the communities of Ashford, Bonshaw, Wallangra, Texas, Atholwood and Yetman. The event will bring a range of community organisations together to provide information on services available. Lunch will also be provided.
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Supply Chain Tours. Brent McLeod and Sandy Hodgens will be orgainising a new round of supply chain tours to link livestock producers with processors, feed lots and each other, next year. Dates are to be confirmed. Contact Sandy Hodgens on 0428 744 287 or Brent McLeod on 0413 884 710 to register your interest.
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Ladies in Livestock - Inverell, Tenterfield, Walcha, Guyra. Dates for 2019 will be confirmed shortly. Contact Georgie Oakes on georgie.oakes@lls.nsw.gov.au or 0429 310 264.
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Soil Health Workshops. The 'Digging Deeper' soils course will continue next year along with a new series of soil health workshops. To express your interest contact Beth Brown on beth.brown@lls.nsw.gov.au or 0429 773 453
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Farm Planning courses. The Northern Tablelands Local Land Services Farm Planning course is targeted to the needs of Northern Tablelands farmers and is run over 5 days spread over several months. New farm planning courses will commence in 2019. If you are interested in participating in a farm planning course contact Kim Deans to register your interest on 0448 182183 or kim.deans@lls.nsw.gov.au
You can help PhD students conducting important research
- Liver Fluke in Livestock and Kangaroos
Jane Lamb is a PhD student from the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England in Armidale. Jane is conducting research on "The prevalence of liver fluke and drug resistance in kangaroos" and the impact on livestock. She is calling for livestock producers within a 200km radius of Armidale to help out by participating in a survey which will only take 5 -10 minutes. Your feedback will provide valuable data about whether kangaroos are a reservoir for liver fluke and the impact on dispersal in livestock. So take some time and help out. Click here to access the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UNEliverfluke
- Wanted: Dung Beetles
Sarah Leeson is a PhD student from University of Western Australia. She is researching the genetic factors that cause half of the species of dung beetles imported from Africa and Europe to fail to survive in Australia. She wants to know how genetic variation has influenced dung beetles and their ability to thrive and survive in Australia. She is seeking help from land owners across Australia to help her to collect dung beetles in January. All you need is a shovel, a bucket and one hour of your time. She will send you everything else. To be involved or for more information contact Sarah Leeson at sarah.leeson@research.uwa.edu.au
Goodbye and good luck to Jason Siddell and Glen Uebergang
Many of you will have worked with Jason Siddell, our Livestock Extension Officer, over the past 5 years. Jason has recently taken up a role as a Development Officer for Extensive Livestock with NSW Department of Primary Industries based at Armidale. We were very sad see Jason go but thank him for all his excellent work for Northern Tablelands LLS. We wish him the best of luck in his new role. Jason can still be contacted on 0459 162 295. We will be recruiting a new Livestock Officer to commence in 2019.
Glen Uebergang, our Mixed Farming Agronomist for the past four years, has also moved onto greener pastures (pun intended). We thank Glen for his work on improving crop and pasture management across the region. We will be filling Glen's role shortly.
So stay tuned for details of our new team members in a future Ag Update.
Thank you for all your support through 2018
What a year it has been! Thank you to all of you who attended our events, from Ladies in Livestock training, pasture management paddock walks, soil health days and farm planning to animal nutrition and market outlook evenings. We hope you all have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year - you certainly deserve it!
We look forward to working with you all next year and if you have any suggestions or ideas on event topics or how we can help you please contact us.
Christmas office closure
Our offices will be closed over the Christmas and New Years period from Monday 24th December until Friday 4th January 2019.
To report any emergency animal disease contact the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on 1800 675 888. To report an emergency plant disease contact the Exotic Plant Pest Hotline on 1800 084 881.
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