OTHER Opportunities

 

AG.Biz Ready - Northern Tablelands

Helping young farmers to thrive in the good times and get ready for the hard times

AG.Biz Ready is a new FREE 10-week program created by the Young Farmer Business Program that is open to all young farmers from the Northern Tablelands.

Registrations close on 1st April 2024.

Who is this program for?

Current and future farm owners, managers and operators, or farmhands.

Designed specifically for young farmers (aged 18-35), we encourage inter-generational learning and welcome all farmers from the Northern Tablelands.

Benefits include:

  • Build your personalised business resilience toolkit to future plan for disasters and unplanned events

  • Receive 10 micro-learning (5-minute) modules issued weekly that can be

    completed on your phone, tablet or laptop

  • Access video case studies from local farmers with real life experience

  • Connect with farmers online and/or face to face

Read more or register at https://resilientready.org/projects/ag-biz-ready-northern-tablelands-nsw/

Expressions of Interest for Spring 2024 Native Tree Planting.

GLENRAC is inviting your Expressions of Interest in our next tree-planting project.

To find out if you are eligible to be included in this project, please register your interest HERE

For more information call 02 6732 3443
or email karen.bavea@glenrac.org.au

Expressions of Interest for Chemical Users Course in 2024

Fee-Free for eligible students under AgSkilled 3.0 funding

Dates are yet to be decided - but will occur between January and June 2024 in Glen Innes

For more information call 02 6732 3443
or email  glenrac@glenrac.org.au

Serradellas for New Environments

GLENRAC is part of a national project with CSIRO to participate in a new project ‘Serradellas for new environments’. The project is funded by Meat and Livestock Australia and involves researchers from CSIRO, NSW DPI and the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture.

Serradellas present many potential benefits for mixed pastures including providing high quality dry matter, fixing nitrogen and lowering the requirement for phosphorus fertiliser relative to subterranean clover. Serradellas also have a low bloat risk and low oestrogenic activity and are adapted to both sandy and duplex soil types.

The project aims to develop serradellas as viable legume options for permanent pasture systems in south-eastern Australia. Current research activities aim to identify the cultivars and agronomy required to successfully establish serradellas in permanent pasture systems.

GLENRAC is now seeking expressions of interest to host a serradella Producer Demonstration Site locally. The total site area would range from 50 x 50 m up to 100 x 100 m and have prior weed control.

The sites would be run under normal farm management and did not require separate fencing but did require the area to be closed to grazing to allow establishment and seed set. The sites, sown in Autumn 2024, will be monitored by the project team for a 1-3-year period.

If you would be interested in hosting a site, please contact Eliza James or Kylie Falconer on 02 6732 3443 or eliza.james@glenrac.org.au

Two AgSkilled workshops with Bralca are coming to Walcha in April 2024!