Conference Programme
Busselton Symposium
Monday, September 25, 1989
- Tours of vegetable and deciduous fruit production on the Swan Coastal Plain; and Harvey Fresh
Symposium
- National issues in horticulture
- Developing a national research profile for horticulture G.R. Gregory
- The role of research and development in the expansion of horticulture Western Australian Department of Agriculture, video presentation
- Post-harvest barriers to horticultural expansion B. Tugwell
- Potential for horticultural expansion in the tropics B.J. Watson
State issues in horticulture
- Western Australian fruit and vegetables - maintaining the edge in South-East Asia
- Western Australian flowers - an export challenge J. Musson
- Developing a premium wine industry A.C. Devitt and J.F. Elliott
Tuesday, September 26, 1989
- Proteas - a new flower crop in Western Australia J. Wood
- Wine grape production
Katanning Symposium - Agriculture in medium/high rainfall mediterranean areas of southern Australia
Monday, September 25, 1989
- Tours of pastures and crops in the Katanning and Broomehill area
Tuesday, September 26, 1989 - Symposia
Session 1: Special characteristics of agriculture in medium/high rainfall mediterranean regions of southern Australia
- Environment of the high rainfall zone of southern Australia and implications for agriculture
- J.L. Davidson, W.K. Anderson, P.R. Dann, W.K. Gardner and T.D. Potter
- Waterlogging: a hidden constraint to pasture and crop production in southern Australia
- D.J. McFarlane, E.G. Barrett-Lennard and T.L. Setter
- Relationships between cropping and livestock on mixed farms in southern Australia
- H.E. Fels and J.M. Young
Session 2: New discoveries in pasture research
- New discoveries in pasture research: current status and developments with temperate perennial pastures in southern Australia, D.R. Kemp, D.A. Nicholas and C.M. Oldham
- Pasture production from saltland C.V. Malcolm
- Roles for new pasture legume species in southern Australia D.J. Gillespie
- Management of annual legume pastures C.W. Thorn
- Nutritive value of pasture species, P.T. Doyle, J.B. Rowe and B. Warren
Session 3: Potential for crop production in high rainfall areas
- Coping with waterlogging in the high rainfall zones of southern Australia W.K. Gardner
- Root diseases as a major constraint in high rainfall cropping systems G.C. MacNish
Merredin Symposium - Sustainable farming systems in dryland Mediterranean environments
Monday, September 25, 1989
- Tours of agricultural research at East Beverley, South Tammin and Merredin
Tuesday, September 26, 1989 Symposia
Session 1: Developing sustainable farming systems for the mediterranean regions of southern Australia
- Farming systems of southern Australia M.W. Perry
- Roles of grain legumes in sustainable dryland cropping systems R.J. Delane, P. Nelson and R.J. French
- The development of pasture legumes for the low rainfall cereal-livestock cropping zone of southern Australia M.A. Ewing
- Dryland soil salinity - cure, containment or catastrophe? E.G. Barrett-Lennard and R.A. Nulsen
Session 2: Integration: sustainable farming systems
- Adapting farming systems research concepts to Australian research needs R.L. McCown
- MIDAS: An economic modelling approach to determining research directions for whole farm systems
- D.A. Morrison, R.S. Kingwell and J. Warren
- Development of a minimum tillage system: Rutherglen experience D.R. Coventry and H.D. Brooke
- Developing a research and extension policy for an agricultural region S.J. Trevenen
- Australian Wheat Board presentation J. Crosbie
- Competition versus co-operation in crop production - demand enhancement versus supply control E.C.A. Runge
- Solutions to problems of oversupply in crop agriculture E.C.A. Runge, S. Murdock, D.I. Padbery and B.A. Stout
Plenary Sessions: The University Of Western Australia
Wednesday September 27, 1989 - Plenary Session I
- Implications of the Greenhouse Effect for Australian Agriculture
- The Greenhouse effect: facts, predictions and uncertainties W.J. Bouma and G.I. Pearman
- The Greenhouse effect, regional climate change and Australian agriculture A.B. Pittock
- Agriculture in south-western Australia in a Greenhouse climate R.A. Nulsen
- The effect of the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on crop productivity R.M. Gifford
Poster session
Donald Medal Oration: Evaluation of genotypes of subterranean clover (T. subterraneum L.) in a mediterranean environment: a personal and historical account R.C. Rossiter
Thursday September 28, 1989 - Plenary Session II
Looking for products, looking for markets
- Emerging world market opportunities for Australian agricultural commodities W. Gerardi, R. McMillan and B. Fisher
- Market-driven research P.S. Cornish
- New plant products: using Australia's genetic heritage J.A. McComb
- New products from new technology J. Peacock
- Developing and supplying horticultural outlets - export and domestic J. Sumich
Poster session
Annual General Meeting of the Australian Society of Agronomy
Friday September 29, 1989 - Plenary Session III
Research and extension: delivering the goods
- Using modern communication's technology: turning on, not turning off J. Childs
- Research and extension: delivering the goods I.C. Crook
Panel - Funding Australia's agricultural research and extension
- Commercialization: the New Zealand experience J.M. Hercus
- Industry research council issues D. Blesing
- A State Department of Agriculture viewpoint N.J. Halse
Start of workshop: Ideotypes and physiology – tailoring plants for increased production
Saturday, September 30, 1989
Workshop continues until noon.