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PPS 15th Annual Conference; Ararat Town Hall; Ararat, Tuesday September 17th, 2024
The 15th Annual PPS conference is not far away and bookings are now open. Details and presenter list on the newsletter attachment.
Annual Dinner; A change has been made to the Annual Dinner format, this year the dinner will follow the conference tour with a return to the Ararat Town. Pre dinner drinks will be available for purchase at the bar and there will be time to further
inspect sponsor displays. The dinner will be at 6pm with Jody & Co providing a two choice main & desert options, cost is $60 per person. The dinner is to be pre paid and dinner drinks will be available for purchase at the Town Hall bar, flier attached.
Annual Conference Offer; We all know people who would be interested in the PPS conference, this year PPS are offering a prize draw for members who bring a guest who signs up to PPS. The new member cost is $126 ($66 for membership and
$66 for the conference), both including GST. We look forward to seeing a few new faces. The prize draw for a voucher from Ag, Horse & Vet will be conducted at the “Not, Just a Farmer” Spring Farm tour on October 13th.
PPS Winter Farm Tour; Thirty five members attended the tour at Dadswells Bridge in July, a report is on page eight of the newsletter. Two interesting farm systems were inspected and plenty of ideas were exchanged.
PPS Annual Study Tour; nineteen members participated in the Annual Study Tour, this year in Tasmania. Some pictures are included on page three. A summary will appear in the December newsletter and a tour report will be sent to members and posted on the PPS website in due course.
PPS Stats; PPS has made a couple of interesting achievements in the last month. Over two hundred farm businesses have been part of PPS as members; the area managed by these current and past members is now over 250,000 Ha. Also the PPS “closed” Facebook page now has over 300 members with some recent additions making the number 308.
Federation University Presentations; over fifty people attended a research presentation on June 26th in Ararat.
Updates on agriculture related PhD projects were introduced by PhD candidates and other researchers. PPS were involved in event planning and twenty seven members were in the audience. A new data collection project has commenced with PPS and Federation University students aiming to transfer soil test data from old paper copies to tabulated digital data.
PPS Webinars: PPS has two recorded webinars available, a Cibolabs satellite pasture imaging information session from the Smart Farms 4 program and a “Dealing with a tough winter” with Jess Revell. Jess from Rumenate Livestock Services is using information from the PPS feed quality projects; which is part of the MLA PDS program. Find them on the PPS website.
PPS Annual Pasture Survey; see page two for details; prize of road building rocks on offer from Western Quarries
New Projects; two new projects are commencing in spring. (1) An MLA/Ag Vic EPDS, gathering quantitative data on the use of Arrowleaf Clover as a single variety “Arrowleaf Clover; is it a good as it looks? (2) A soil microbiology project with Helen Hayden as part of a Melbourne University project “Nematode DNA metabarcoding as soil health bioindicators” PPS involvement is funded through a WCMA Victorian Landcare grant. More details in December newsletter.
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