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Need a speaker ‘with dirt under the nails’?
“Stories from the heart: open, candid and superb" - Alex Arbuthnot AM, chair, Agribusiness Gippsland Inc. To organise a speaker, phone 0402 267 802 or email susanw@ptarmigan.com.au
The knockout signature dish from Mardan dairy farmer Tanya Privitera is online here. And the prize-winning mudcake recipe from Leongatha Secondary College too ... Agribusiness scholarship offer - food processing, including beverages, wine and pharmaceuticals The application form is here. Gippy gals speak out Surviving bushfire, coping with family tragedy and how to bake sourdough bread … those were some of the experiences shared between East Gippsland farming women at a recent two-day workshop held at Sale. A two-day workshop in early June saw 16 women from agricultural backgrounds share the stories of their lives, their farms and their visions for sustainable agriculture. From Buchan to Neerim South, the women gathered to learn how to explain their farming enterprises. They attended the second workshop of a five-month project organised by Agribusiness Gippsland and funded by DAFF’s Recognising Women Farmers grant. The gathering attracted beef and sheep farmers, women breeding and rearing goats, meat rabbits, alpacas, blueberries, a cropper, an organic potato grower, an NRM specialist and an agronomist. Agribusiness Gippsland executive officer Sue Webster said: “Every good farm has a great story behind it. We hope this project will add some industry weight, explaining the importance of sustainable farming to a world increasingly disconnected from agriculture.” Participants from the Sale workshop will join those from an earlier workshop held at Cowes. Representatives from both will be addressing the special one-day forum at Lardner Park, near Warragul on August 2.
Diversify income from your land Want to make more from your landholding, whatever its size? If you want to diversify your income, a series of five free forums will offer insights from people with hands-on experience. The municipalities of Casey and Cardinia, together with the DPI¡¦s AgFutures and Agribusiness Gippsland Inc are staging the workshops from next month. Two of the forums are specifically for potato growers, one is for larger-holding owners, one for smallholders and ¡V to finish the series ¡V an overview by Neil Barr discussing the future for small farms. All sessions include refreshments. Please RSVP for catering. Thursday May 13, 11am- 2:30pm: Koo Wee Rup (for larger farms) Thursday May 20, 11am- 2:30pm: Pearcedale (for smallholdings) Thursday June 3, 11am-2:30pm: Gembrook
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Global food security to banjo-plucking soil science, the range and relevance of speakers at the summit held at Cowes in August 2009 blew us away. To see speaker presentations you'll find them at Past presentations |
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Ten years of growing Gippsland...
Agribusiness Gippsland Inc is a non-profit group that helps support regional agribusiness and works in partnership with other organisations. Our latest annual report is at NEWS
Upping food production while curbing greenhouse gas emissions will be the biggest challenge facing Gippsland farming in the next decade. Click here... Overseas farming inspires ag-educator Overseas farming models offer insights for future Gippsland farming practices, a leading ag-educator told the Agribusiness Gippsland August board meeting.
- Prof Margaret Alston discussed the different ways that men and women respond to food scarcity. Click here - CSIRO’s Brad Ridoutt explained how low water use is not always the benchmark of eco-friendly foodstuffs. Click here
- And, most of all amazing stories of adaptation, resilience and survival from Gippsland women farmers. To read their fascinating stories, click here
Discover new insights into how we produce food – and the food that we produce. We will explore what it takes to build and maintain health communities and sustainable food systems.
Geoff and Marianne Mitchell of Jindivick explained how they make $70,000 a year leasing bulls across Victoria, SA and the Riverina – with animals off-farm for much of the year. Geoff also explained his shift from dairying to beef and how that fits his succession planning. The free forums offer insights from people with hands-on experience. Whether it’s high-value/small-scale horticulture, maybe agisting stock or leasing out your land, making commercial compost or setting up a growers’ co-op … come and hear what’s working. Findings mow down pasture carbon sink hope April 30, 2010: Optimising soil carbon levels through growing grass would require Gippsland farmers to triple pasture production, according to newly presented data. A literature review conducted by GippsDairy and presented to the Agribusiness Gippsland (AGI) board revealed the scale of the task if farmers tried to sequester air-borne carbon into the soil by using pasture plants. This technique, called biosequestration, was also under the spotlight in the past month as AGI presented to a State Government hearing at Traralgon. READ MORE AT NEWS .....  Pictured left: Agribusiness Gippsland chair Alex Arbuthnot with Dr Danielle Auldist, CEO of GippsDairy.Gippsland, show your stuff! Restoring trade skills through technical schools, optimising wastewater use for agriculture and industry and boosting the capacity of Traralgon airport were some of the suggestions raised at a recent VECCI workshop at Morwell.Read about it in NEWS. Fancy South America in June? Clusters meeting offers brainfood March 15, 2010: Agriculture, government, unions, conservationists came along to two Gippsland sessions with Rodin Genoff ¡V an international expert on economic clusters. Last week saw meetings at Leongatha and Morwell organised by South Gippsland Shire. Read about some of Gippsland's possible future industries at NEWS...
... And ALSO: Catch up with the thoughts of Richard Elkington, the man newly-tasked to link Gippsland with the Australian and Victorian governments. He addressed our AGM on Thursday, January 28 and you can read what he said at NEWS PICTURED : Getting a grip on Gippy, young agribusiness professional and Wellington Shire farmer Courtney Ferguson, Richard Elkington and Agribusiness Gippsland chairman and Nambrok farmer, Alex Arbuthnot.
SURVEY TIME! Is agritourism important to you? Tell the Federal Government! Agribusiness Gippsland has been working with the Bureau of Rural Science in a national study of agritourism. Take the survey at the Gippsland Tourism page |
A feast of brainfood at Warragul forum
- And Deakin’s Prof Mark Lawrence detailed reconciling nutrition with sustainability when rewriting the healthy diet guidelines. Click 
Sustainable vs profitable farming? Food: enough for all or a free-for-all? Are we eating away at our future?
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