Ag Excellence News and Updates
The MNHRZ is offering candidates an opportunity to join the team as their Research and Extension Officer (REO). This new role wil be instrumental in developing and implementing local research while being effective at project management and extension to the MNHRZ membership and wider research community.
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BIGG recently welcomed new Executive Officer Alexi Kentish. Alexi has a strong connection with sustainable land management with an Honours degree in Agricultural Science, six years working with a large fertiliser company and 16 years farming in the south east of South Australia with her husband, Nic. Alexi’s role on the farm was to monitor the soils, pastures and crops and guide the business from conventional farming methods through to sustainable, biological broadscale farming.
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When South Australia’s Barossa experienced a run of drier than average seasons, local sheep producers turned to containment feeding to meet the nutritional needs of their ewes and protect the value of lambing pastures.
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Have you considered containment feeding your sheep, or already do but want to do it better, plus get the right system in place that suits your enterprise – get on board!
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On receiving SA Sheep Industry Fund (SIF) sponsored tickets, fifteen local students and early career professionals attended the BIGG 2024 Annual Conference ‘Farming ahead: a changing landscape’ on Thursday 8 February at Lambert Estate, Angaston.
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Barossa Improved Grazing Group (BIGG) is seeking an Executive Officer (EO) to join their team on a part-time, contractor basis working under the direction of the Board. The EO provides a range of networking, project development and project support services to the BIGG board.
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The recent appointment of four new committee members further validates the important role Ag Excellence (Ag Ex) plays as the peak representative body for the South Australian grower group network.
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Regional Soil Coordinators across Australia have developed a twenty minute survey to help identify soil needs and priorities, designed to gather information about local issues, and what ways soil advice is being provided. The survey is aimed at people who work in advisory or extension roles with growers, farmers and landholders and individual landholders.
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If you’re a recent Ag Science graduate (or about to be) with a keen interest in grains research, this could be the opportunity for you!
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South Australia’s grower group leaders recently gathered for the inaugural EO Forum2023, held at the Marion Hotel. A great opportunity for the 19 groups to participate in a facilitated workshop co designed to address key topics as identified by the EO’s.
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