Invited Paper
Opening Session
An overview of the benefits delivered by research and new technology to farmers in South-Eastern-Australia
I.M. MacKinnon
Emerging Challenges in Land Management: An American Perspective on Efficiency
J.L. Hatfield
The Tasmanian Poppy Industry: A Case Study of the Application of Science and Technology
A.J. Fist
Technology on the Farm
Is agronomy being left behind by precision agriculture?
S.E.Cook and R.G.V.Bramley
Controlled traffic for sustainable cropping
J. N. Tullberg
Irrigation and Intensive Large-Scale Crop Management
C Thompson
Scientific Support for Decision Making
Understanding Climate Variability to Improve Agricultural Decision Making
H. Meinke, K. Pollock, G.L Hammer, E. Wang, R.C. Stone, A. Potgieter and M. Howden
Towards a Common Advisory Toolkit for managing Temperate Grazing Systems
R.J. Simpson, L. Salmon, A.D. Moore, J.R. Donnelly and M. Freer
Imperatives for Australian Agriculture - Andrew Campbell
Farming Systems Research
Applying ecological principles to the re-design of agricultural landscapes
E C Lefroy
Back to the future - Reinventing farm management economics in farming systems research
L.E. Brennan and R.L. McCow
Rotation, Sequence and Phase: Research on Crop and Pasture Systems
J.F. Angus, J.A. Kirkegaard and M.B. Peoples
Farming Systems Research and Farming Practice
R.L. McCown
Participatory Research Processes and Results
Achieving and Enabling Continuous Improvement and Innovation
R. Clark, J Timms, A. MacCartney, K. Egerton-Warburton, N. O'Dempsey and B. Radokovich
Farmers determining their own destiny
Ian McClelland and Tony Eyres
Why Should GRDC Invest In Participatory Farming Systems Research ?
B.R Eastough
Are science rigour and industry relevance both achievable in participatory action research?
P.S. Carberry
Biotechnology, Food and Agronomy
Biotechnology and Weed Management
R.T. Roush
Novel plant products from gene technology
Allan Green and Phillip Salisbury
Transgenesis and Genomics in Molecular Breeding of Forage Plants
G. Spangenberg, R. Kalla, A. Lidgett, T. Sawbridge, E.K. Ong and U. John
The Big Picture
Towards Environmental Management Systems in broad-acre agriculture: rhetoric, reality and future possibilities
A.M. Ridley
Prospects for feeding the world and for rural landscapes
T. Fischer