Past Event: AgriFocus 2025

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AgriFocus 2025 – Southern Farming Systems’ Premier Technical Event Logo - SFS
AgriFocus is the leading field day for high rainfall zone farming systems, offering farmers and agronomists direct access to cutting-edge research and expert insights.

📅 Date: 15th October 2025
📍 Location: SFS Streatham Trial Site

Now in its fifteenth year, AgriFocus features:

🧑‍🌾Key Note Sessions: The Long View: Farming, Innovation & Glyphosate Across Generations & the Globe with Harm Van Rees and Biofuels the opportunity for the Canola industry with Andrew Ham, Nuffield Scholar.

 

🔗The “choose your own adventure” matrix of field proof-of-concept trials and expert-led discussions include:

  • Nitrogen & Crop Management – yield curves, products & responses
  • Wheat Variety Disease (Winter & Spring Varieties) – Fungicide strategies, sowing time vs disease pressure
  • Barely Variety Disease Resistance – Sowing times, Fungicide strategies
  • Pulses & Nutrition – Benchmarking for nutrient value and quality
  • Faba Bean Agronomy – Seeding Depth & Timing
  • Oat Variety Evaluation – Oat varieties from RAGT in the HRZ
  • Farming Systems South – crop selection, rotation, time of sowing and nitrogen decisions learnings from the last 2 years.
  • Canola Trials – Nutrition with Active Agriscience products Active PRIME, ActiveBUILD, ActiveFlower
  • TT Canola Performance – New & existing varieties, sowing times & depths
  • Canola Nutrient Products – YaraVita BRASSITREL PRO micronutrient timing for canola resilience and yield
  • Herbicide matrix: actives, crop safety and efficacy – Premier Ag
  • Lime strategies for soil acidity management in Lentils
  • Soil Pit

👀Partner exhibits: including machinery from Premier Partner Swayn & McCabe Claas Harvest Centre, RAGT, Knuckeys, Alvan Blanche, Mobble, Ag Logic, Agriculture Victoria, Farming IT, Gorst Rural Supplies, Loam Bio, SLTEC Fertilizers, Bayer &  Sub Gro and many more…

💬 “If you’re farming in the high rainfall zone, this is a field day not to be missed. Access to research trials in your own backyard is priceless.” – Michelle McClure, AgriFocus Coordinator

🎯 Help us continue pushing boundaries in HRZ farming—your support matters!

📄 Event Program: Available on the SFS website end of September

🎟️Tickets here…

📧 More Info: Contact Michelle McClure at mmclure@sfs.org.au