Ayr Data Driven Decisions Workshop

Are you a farmer wanting to understand what’s really happening on your farm? Then come along to a free workshop for some simple tips and tools for better management decisions!

Practical Decisions – By discussing how to efficiently collect data and through demonstrating data collection instruments, we’ll help you understand how to incorporate data insights into your decision making process!

Improved Efficiency – Hear real-world case studies from producers outside your commodity. Learn about how they’ve realised potential and increased efficiency by using data to make decisions on their property. Case studies will include: Fertiliser Application, Asset Monitoring, Individual Animal Management and Farm Business Record Management.

Farm Ready Skills – This workshop will demonstrate how an increasingly Digital Environment affects reliable data collection, efficient use of resources and analysis of objectives to achieve conclusions supported by evidence and much more!

Facilitated by CQUniversity’s Research Fellow in Agri-Tech Education & Innovation Amy Cosby.

HOW TO ATTEND

Date: 15th November 2018
Location: Ayr Anzac Memorial Club
Time: 9.30am – 1.30pm
Register with Eventbrite or contact Diana Saunders on 07 3837 4726 or diana@qff.org.au by Friday 2nd November 2018.

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Bundaberg Data Driven Decisions Workshop

Are you a farmer wanting to understand what’s really happening on your farm? Then come along to a free workshop for some simple tips and tools for better management decisions!

Practical Decisions – By discussing how to efficiently collect data and through demonstrating data collection instruments, we’ll help you understand how to incorporate data insights into your decision making process!

Improved Efficiency – Hear real-world case studies from producers outside your commodity. Learn about how they’ve realised potential and increased efficiency by using data to make decisions on their property. Case studies will include: Fertiliser Application, Asset Monitoring, Individual Animal Management and Farm Business Record Management.

Farm Ready Skills – This workshop will demonstrate how an increasingly Digital Environment affects reliable data collection, efficient use of resources and analysis of objectives to achieve conclusions supported by evidence and much more!

Facilitated by CQUniversity’s Research Fellow in Agri-Tech Education & Innovation Amy Cosby.

HOW TO ATTEND

Date: 13th November 2018
Location: CQUniversity Bundaberg
Time: 9.30am – 1.30pm
Register with Eventbrite or contact Diana Saunders on 07 3837 4726 or diana@qff.org.au by Friday 2nd November 2018.

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CQUniversity Bundaberg
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Next Gen Meeting – Bundaberg

Where: CANETEC Harvester Factory, Cummins Street, North Bundaberg.
When: Wednesday, 7th September 2016
Time: 3:30pm

Safety Requirements – Closed in shoes are essential!  High visibility clothing is preferred but not essential.

The meeting will include:

  • A look through the CANETEC factory and a look at the new harvesters that are being manufactured in Bundaberg.
  • Sugar Marketing update
  • Crushing updates
  • Variety information
  • Fertiliser discussions

RSVP: Please reply by Monday 5th September, so that necessery arrangments can be made for the factory tour. RSVP by calling either Gavin Lerch on 0418 798 225 or Josh Buchbach on 0427 559 095.

A few refreshments will be available at the end of the afternoon.

Please feel free to invite others to this event.

 

Coraki Field Day – Floodplain Cropping and Biodiversity

Friday, 12 August 9am to 2pm (including morning tea and lunch)
Floodplain croppers interested in improving farm health and restoring riverbank stability, native vegetation buffers and habitat on the Wilsons and Richmond River are invited to this field day at a second generation sugarcane farm.

Luke and Damian Gooley will host the day at their family’s 78-hectare Coraki farm. Continue reading