Land Management and Conservation Forum

Discover practical strategies for managing productive, healthy country, with insights from producers, researchers and experts across North West NSW.

Event details:

The Land Management and Conservation forum will tackle the big questions, bringing together producers, advisers, researchers and practitioners to share practical strategies for managing productive and healthy country in North West NSW. The forum will provide useful, balanced and credible information that values the realities of farming businesses.

Throughout the day, you will hear presentations from expert speakers, participate in panel discussions, explore a trade display and have the opportunity to use the ‘ask an expert’ kiosks.

Speakers and topics include:

• Keynote speaker Dr Anika Molesworth – Farmer, Scientist, Author, Young Farmer of the Year – Why Farm Landscapes Matter

• Graham Finlayson – ‘Bokhara’, Brewarrina - Can better grazing, build better country?

• Brooke Sauer – Boolah Farms - Regen4Real: A sustainable program generating mutual benefit for growers and end users

• Cameron Leckie – Regional Soils Coordinator – North West Soils: Minimising Risks, Maximising Capability

• Dave Carr – Ecologist - Plantings that actually work

• Michael Taylor – ‘Taylors Run’, Kentucky - Trees that pay their way

• Rhiannon Smith – University of New England – Birds, bats and beneficial bugs provide natural pest control services on cotton farms

• Andrew Watson – From Research to the Paddock: natural biodiversity in a commercial cotton system

• Sean Graham – Ozfish - Improving Habitats for Fishes of the Namoi and Gwydir

• Prof Fran Sheldon – Griffith University - Environmental flows - how important are they?

• Paul Gibson-Roy – DCCEEW – Restoration as a new rural industry

• Dr Rachel Lawrence – Local Land Services – Nature Repair Markets: Opportunity or hype?

• Hamish Caddy – Local Land Services – What clearing can I still do on my farm?

• David Lindsay – Local Land Services – Dealing with Ferals: What’s working and what’s not?

Additional details:

• Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided

Contact: Lana Andrews via email at: lana.andrews@lls.nsw.gov.au or 0417 328615 or Craig Pullman at craig.pullman@lls.nsw.gov.au or 0428 432 784

This event is supported by North West Local Land Services’ Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator. Sustainable Agriculture Facilitators are supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Natural Heritage Trust under the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program.

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