Professor Jim Pratley to speak on 'Conservation Farming' - Eastern Riverina Landcare Network
The Eastern Riverina Landcare Network is very pleased to have Professor Jim Pratley as guest speaker at our meeting at the Henty Community Civic Centre on 15th May.
Professor Pratley is Emeritus Professor in the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, at Charles Sturt University.
Topic: "Conservation Farming: Where we've come from & immediate challenges."
Professor Pratley will speak for 30 minutes followed by questions and discussion. We welcome all those interested in this topic to join us for the talk, discussion and supper.
Following supper, the meeting will reconvene to consider: "Future directions for Landcare in the Eastern Riverina."
If you are a member of a local landcare group; interested in landcare or just interested in having community input into natural resource management in your area, this is a chance for you to have a say. The ERLN is one of 15 Landcare Networks represented on the committee of Murrumbidgee Landcare, the umbrella organisation which is the community voice for landcare in the Murrumbidgee catchment. We do not want the Eastern Riverina to lose that voice, do you?
For more information contact:
Anthony Mail, Chair, ERLN, amale@dragnet.com.au ph. 0428 324 870
Peter Holding, Chair, Murrumbidgee Landcare, pholding@murrumbidgeelandcare.asn.au ph. 0409 049 477
Jim is Professor of Agriculture at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. His research career commenced with doctoral studies at the University of NSW studying plant and soil factors affecting the selenium nutrition of grazing livestock. Jim has devoted attention to long term studies of tillage systems and in recent times his activities have been extended to include research into herbicide resistance and to allelopathy of weeds and crops. His resistance work identified the first worldwide incidence of evolved resistance to the herbicide Roundup.
Jim is editor of the standard Australian agronomy text "Principles of Field Crop Production", now in its 4th edition, and has co-edited the monographs "Tillage - New Directions in Australian Agriculture" and "Agriculture and the Environmental Imperative".
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Pratley, J (ed) Agriculture and the Environmental Imperative. CSIRO PUBLISHING, 1998. |
He is currently a member of the Board of the CRC for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity, and was a member of the Board of the CRC for Sustainable Rice Production which terminated in 2005.
He is a member of the Minister's Science Council, NSW Department of Primary Industries, and is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Australian Farm Institute.
In July 2006, Jim retired from the position of Dean of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture at CSU after more than 15 years in the position.
