Tuesday, 18th June Australian Summer Grains Conference 2013

Bernard will explore the dynamics of the great challenges in summer grains - Profitability - Productivity - Management of our key assets - Water and protein; Stop the talent drain - keeping our smartest assets on farm and in our industry.

• Summer Grains to the World Market - Bernard Salt

• Australia: End of the World or the Tail That Wags the Dog - Dave Parker

Session Chair: Keith Pickmere

• Second season Maize grower blending with other agricultural production and why? - Campbell Dalton
• Growing Corn applying innovative technology and why? - Steve Lanyon
• Optimising profitability with mungbean production - Xavier Martin

Session Chair: Gordon Cumming

• Disease threats to the Australian soybean industry - Malcolm Ryley
• New Insecticide Options for Mungbeans, Soybeans and other Summer Pulses - What's coming, how effective they are, and what's their IPM potential?  - Hugh Brier
• Pest suppressive landscapes: Understanding the role of habitat on Rutherglen Bug populations - Hazel Parry

Session Chair: Rex Williams

• Sorghum Yield Trends in NE Australia are High - Andries Potgieter
• Private sector sorghum breeding in Australia - Ivan Calvert
• Sorghum pre-breeding contributions to genetic advancement - David Jordan

Session Chair: Joe Kochman

• Farm Case Study: The Benefits of Growing Cotton into Standing Sorghum Stubble - Matthew Holding
• Soybean variety development for coastal New South Wales - Natalie Moore
• The expansion of the southern NSW soybean crops: variety, agronomy and industry update. - Luke Gaynor

Session Chair: Lachlan Herbert

• Breeding Better Sunflowers for Australia. - Errol Corsan
• www.bettersunflowers.com.au – Innovative Information and Training Delivery for Growers and Advisers - Liz Alexander
• Southern Sunflowers - growing sunflowers in non conventional areas - David Cattanach
• A pre-feasibility study of the commercial viability of a Central Queensland multi-crop oilseed processing facility and its impacts on grower returns. - Doug Sands
• Sunflowers an integral part of the rotation at “Windy Station” - Peter Winton
• Irrigated sunflowers – research in the new millenium  - Loretta Serafin

Session Chair: Rob Crothers

• Outcomes from the 2011 GRDC-funded trip to Japan and Korea to promote Australian-grown maize - Keith Pickmere
• Can Australian Corn Find a Regular Place in the Japanese Market? - Tsuyoshi Ito
• What will the Australian Maize Industry look like in 2020? - Tony Cogswell

Session Chair: Juan Juttner

• Current opportunities to discover useful sorghum diversity - Stephen Kresovitch
• What value will whole genome resequencing bring to sorghum crop improvement? - Emma Mace
• International collaborations on drought-adaptation in sorghum: Highlights from Australia, US, India and Africa  - Andrew Borrell

Session Chair: Todd Jorgensen

• Planning is the key for successful mungbean production - Paul McIntosh
• Mungbeans in Taiwan - an Australian Farmers Experience - Justin Commens
• Characterisation of drought patterns of mungbean growing environments of the northern grains region of Australia - Yashvir Chauhan

Session Chair: Bede O'Mara

• Sell the farm or pay the interest. How can we replace the Key soil factors that sustain modern cropping systems - Mike Bell
• Agronomic and economic responses of Sorghum to N nutrition - Matthew Gardner
• Controlling Feathertop Rhodes Grass with Profitable Sunflower Rotations - Peter Mifsud
• Loopers and other insect pests of sunflowers - Melina Miles

Session Chair: Rob Anderson

• Understanding and capitalising on the Key drivers in grains and oilseeds market opportunities in the medium term. - Graydon Chong
• Mungbeans In the International Market Place - Dale Reeves
• “The end users view of sunflower oil benefits and challenges of the product including supply” - Ian Mack

Session Chair: James Clark

• Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) has greater transpiration efficiency than maize (Zea mays L.) and this is not associated with plant stature - Erik Van Oosterom
• Optimizing genotype by environment by management to maximize opportunities for maize productivity in North Eastern Australia  - Solomon Fekybelu
• Breeding for Stress Tolerance and Drought Adaptation in Maize - Steve Wilson

Session Chair: Peter Brodie

• Soy Innovation... The NON-gmo Canadian Experience - David Hendrick
• Exploring two markets for Australian Soybeans - Brett Tucker
• Paddock under the microscope. - Gary Kong