CSIRO/ Harden Murrumburrah Landcare Group Field Day

Tuesday 29 September, 2009

Mechanics Institute, Neill Street, Harden, NSW.

This workshop will report on the results of a 20-year experiment investigating tillage and stubble management at 'Oxton Park', Harden.

Program includes

• Celebrating a twenty year partnership between CSIRO and Harden Murrumburrah
• Does direct drilling reduce seedling growth - where to from here?
• Bus trip to Oxton Park, reviewing plots
• Soil water balance and deep drainage
• Conserving remnant vegetation in a conservation farming program
• Importance of research and community, where to in the next twenty years of farming?
• Effect of conservation farming on crop growth, yield and quality
• Crop nitrogen management and conservation cropping
• Effect of conservation farming on the diversity and activity of soil biota
• Growing canola in wheat stubbles - conservation cropping with increased yield
• Soil carbon pools and building blocks: explaining the effects of tillage and stubble management

RSVP by 25 September 2009 to Louise Hufton:
email: louise.hufton@cma.nsw.gov.au
phone: 6386 3945 fax: 6386 2385