Past Event: Dookie Field Day 2023: Redesigning Broadacre Farming Systems

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- Tue, October 03 202310:00am AEDT
- 1:15pm AEDT
Dookie Campus, 940 Dookie-Nalinga Road, Dookie, Victoria 3647
Razlin Azman

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Join us at The University of Melbourne’s Dookie Campus for a field day about redesigning broadacre farming systems.

All welcome, please RSVP to this free event (see box to the right).

TIME	ACTIVITY
9:35 AM – 9:55 AM	Registration and pre-event tea & coffee
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM	Dookie Field Day Welcome Adress & Outline of Dookie Field Day Prof Tim Reeves (the University of Melbourne)
10:20 AM – 11:20 AM	Redesigning Broadacre Farming Systems *Project* *Overview* Assoc Prof Dorin Gupta, project leader (the University of Melbourne) Dr Razlin Azman, Research Fellow Dr Waseem Ashfaq, Research Fellow
	*Dookie farm site experiments* Assoc Prof Dorin Gupta & project team (the University of Melbourne)
	*Birchip* *Cropping* *Group* *(BCG)* *site* *experiments* Dr Yolanda Plowman & Mr Angus Butterfield (BCG)
	*Riverine* *Plains* *site* *experiments* Dr Sara Hely & Ms Rhiannan McPhee (Riverine Plains Inc)
	*Indigenous* *Garden* *site* Ms Gay Baker (owner of Gap Flat Track & Indigenous farmer)
	*Native* *vegetation* *corridors* Assoc Prof Dorin Gupta & project team (the University of Melbourne)
11:25 AM – 11:45 AM	*Soil pit profile* Dr Alexis Pang (the University of Melbourne)
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM	*Long* *Coleoptile* *project* & *Acknowledgment* of *GRDC* *Research* *Infrastructure* *bid* Professor James Hunt (the University of Melbourne)
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM	*GRDC* *Research* *Infrastructure* *bid* Mr Andrew Russell, Chairman of GRDC Southern Panel
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM	*National* *Phenology* *Initiative* Dr Corrine Celestine (the University of Melbourne)
12:20 PM – 12:30 PM	*Nitrogen Bank Management* D Arjun Pandey (the University of Melbourne)
12:30 PM – 1.15 PM	Q & A session/networking lunch

This project received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund

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How to attend

Please register for this free event by emailing Razlin Azman