Wednesday, 19th June Australian Summer Grains Conference 2013

Errol Corsan, Nuseed on behalf of the Australian Summer grains stakeholders

• Consideration and Challenges of commercial Seed production in Australia - Errol Corsan

Justin Kauffman Precision Planting, USA

• Increasing yield advantage through seed placement technology - Justin Kauffman

Tim Lust, Sorghum Checkoff Program, USA

• Grower Funded R & D, Government Policy and Challenges for US Sorghum Growers - Tim Lust

Jim Pratley, Charles Sturt University

• R, D and E² in Australian Agriculture-The Challenges Ahead - Jim Pratley

Session Chair: Mal Woods?

• Innovative tactics are needed to stop herbicide-resistant weeds growing  - Steve Walker
• Managing difficult to control summer grasses - is there a silver bullet? - Michael Widderick
• Residual chemistry for the management of feather top rhodes - Rob Battaglia

Session Chair: Tony Matchett

• The Australian Grains Genebank  - Sally Norton
• Post Entry Quarantine – Why it matters and what it could mean for the future of Australian food security - Steve Wilson
• National Quarantine Why do we have it? - Greg Fraser

Session Chair: Graeme Hammer

• Sorghum genotypes differ in response of seed set to high temperature - Vijaya Singh
• Can we make better use of  water available during the growing season in crop production? An in silico exploration of novel G*E*M possibilities in sorghum. - Greg McLean
• A novel technique for the early assessment of sorghum lines for resistance to Fusarium stalk rot - Jodie White

Session Chair: Xavier Martin

• Best parents for breeding and varieties for release can be identified more confidently using pedigree information - Gabriela Borgognone
• Progress in the National Mungbean Improvement Program and Next Generation Varieties - Col Douglas
• Developments and future direction of international mungbean research - Ram Nair

Session Chair: Trevor Philp

• Sorghums role in our farming operations. - David Brownhill
• Summer grains in our western farming operations. - Shaun Nolan

Session Chair: Loretta Serafin

• The importance of relationships in Agriculture. - Don McDougall
• Logistics - its importance to summer grains, some of the issues that have been resolved lately and the major issues still to be resolved for the grains industry at present. - Craig Dennis

• Sunflower pathology: The Brown Bridgedry crop and weed residues aiding survival of multiple Phomopsis/Diaporthe species; Early results of Phomopsis Stem Canker and Sclerotinia varietal screening trials. - Sue Thompson
• Annual surveys highlight emerging problems and monitor trends in US sunflower crop - Thomas Gulya

Session Chair: Tony Cogswell

• Open Forum with maize endusers - Raquel Epstein
• Could the relay cropping systems from the Argentinean Pampas open a new frontier for the northern grains industry? - Joseph Eyre

"Guar in Australia - Let's see how far we've Gum"

Barry Croker, MD Pacific Seeds

Tony Matchett, ABARES

Marie Haga, Global Crop Diversity Trust

• Crop Diversity: A Pillar for Food Security - Marie Haga

Adele O'Connor, Springsure

• Women in Agriculture - partners in many ways - Adele O'Connor

CONFERENCE WRAPUP on outcomes from the conference, the issues, the solutions, the way for

Mike Bell, Angus Wood, David Brownhill, David Hendrick, Tony Lockrey,  Maree Crawford, Jim Pratley

Chairs: John Cameron, ICAN and Chris Bazley, Grower

INDUSTRY AWARDS for significant contribution to Grain Sorghum, Maize, Sunflower, Mungbean, Soybean crops plus GRDC Farmer Award and Women in Agriculture Award