meeting the needs of agricultural businesses & the environment
Presentations
Native shrubs for grazing and for bees’ - South West Catchment Council, Woodanilling March, 2019
‘Future Feeds’ - LambEx
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
7 August, 2018
Vertical farm real estate – soil, shrubs and systems
North Stirlings Pallinup Natural resources in combination with the Talkin’ Soils conference
16 March 2018 - Borden
Accelerated Adaptation of cattle from pastoral properties to backgrounding farms
12 March 2018 WALC seminar - Badgingarra
Gascoyne Catchments Group & Bullseye Project Forum: building better beef businesses
14 & 15 November 2017 - Coral Bay
Technologies to make a difference for pastoralists: GNRBA Innovation Day
11 October 2017 - Kalgoorlie
Total Grazing Pressure: key issues and opportunities in managing the balance between feed supply and demand
September 2017 Australian Rangelands Society Conference - Port Augusta
Rangeland livestock as landscape managers & income generators: Rangeland reform & future visions
18 September 2017 - ECU Centre for Ecosystem Management, Joondalup
Gascoyne Catchments Group: Managing your rangelands for sustainable profit
Dean's presentation: Dry season diets and diet diversity
27 June 2017 - Carnarvon
Mingenew Irwin Group: Forage shrub field day
Forage shrubs for reducing wind erosion
27 May 2017 - Irwin
Pastoral Profit Seminars: Technologies to increase profit
"Knowing where your animals are at any one time and being able to track their potential value over time via a practical marketing strategy can increase your financial bottom line"
Mt Magnet: Recreation Centre 7 & 8 March 2017
Newman: Capricorn Roadhouse 10 March 2017
Gasgoyne Junction: 4 & 5 March 2017
Dean’s presentation:
Tracking animals to improve feed use and to make mustering more efficient.
Controlling distribution of livestock.
Increasing reproduction rates.
Kimberley Pilbara Cattlemen’s Association Annual Conference and Field Day
Field Day Minderoo Station 23 March 2017
Innovation Day Onslow 24 March 2017
Dean’s presentation (Onslow 24 March):
Animals, Attractants and Adaptation: bringing more of your country into production with adaptable animals that produce what your markets want.
Profitable and Sustainable Beef Supply Chains - Coral Bay 21 November 2016
& Bullara Field Day 22 November 2016
People from all sectors of the WA beef supply chain discussed a positive outlook for the industry. We considered North-South alliances, a behaviourally-enhanced supply chain, nutrition and reproduction, land management, financial and business factors, and processing and marketing opportunities.
Wagin Woodanilling Landcare Zone field day
27 October 2016
manure spreading to regenerate saline soils
North South Beef Alliance Introductory Workshop
Mingenew Irwin Group, Irwin
Wednesday 14 September 2016
"The system from an animal's point of view - departure, transport, receival and induction protocols; accelerated adaptation principles"
WA Farmers Livestock & Pasture Update
Manjimup Country Club, Manjimup
Thursday 1 September 2016
Northern Beef Research Updates Conference
Rockhampton, Queensland 14-16 August 2016
Read about Dean's presentation: 'Ongoing enthusiastic conversations are an alternative to a linear research-adoption paradigm'
LEARN ABOUT ADOPTION OF RESEARCH
or download the PDF version of Dean's presentation here
Making More From Sheep
High sheep production from low-input forage systems
- Merredin Tuesday 26 July
- Williams Wednesday 27 July
- Kojonup Thursday 28 July
Grazing Strategies to Increase Production
Pastoral Profit Southern Rangelands WA Workshop Series 2016
- Nallan Station Cue Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th May
- Carnarvon Motel Carnarvon Thursday 26th & Friday 27th May
'Your station through the eyes & guts of your livestock'
- What your animals need: Energy and nutrient requirements of livestock
- Nutritional value of rangeland forages
- Modifying grazing patterns – Rangelands Self Herding
'Dean's Deli': using your animals to tell you what they need
Grazing and shrubs - within the context of whole-of-paddock rehabilitation
16 April, Boorowa Field Day, NSW
For more information, contact Melissa Henry, South East Local Land Services at melissa.henry@lls.nsw.gov.au
Small Farms Network (Capital Region)
17 April - ACT - Fodder crops field day
- Why consider trees and shrubs on the farm?
- Forage from shrubs for livestock
- Benefits and Limitations of shrubs for animal feed
For more information, contact Jennie Curtis at: smallfarmscapital@gmail.com
Perennial grazing systems - Incorporating shrubs into the feedbase
22 March 2016 - Grenfell–Forbes Producer workshop, NSW
For more information, contact James Leigo, NSW DPI at james.leigo@dpi.nsw.gov.au
BEHAVE Australian consortium – workshop with USA Professor Fred Provenza
14-18 March, Dubbo NSW
(Behavioural Education for Animals, Vegetation and Ecosystems)
West Midlands Group Seasonal Updates
"Using animal behaviour as a management tool"
Moora, 25 February 2016
Managing animals to use a diverse range of forages; Helping livestock adapt to change, including relocation
Managing grazing in a changing climate
Coorow, 10 February 2016
Productive Farming Future - Agriculture in a changing climate forum
Northern Agricultural Catchment Council (NACC)
LEARN ABOUT GRAZING IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Masterclass on integrating forage shrubs in to whole-farm systems for multiple benefits
Wheatbelt NRM, Corrigin, 12 August 2015
A summary of the main options and decisions to successfully use perennial forage shrubs.
Contact Wheatbelt NRM or Revell Science for more information
Food and Agriculture Organisation, International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture and International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (FAO, ICBA, ICARDA) Dubai, 3-5 November 2015
Regional workshop: Salt and Drought Tolerant Fodders in Integrated Systems in the Arabian Peninsula
"Nutritional limitations and strategies to improve the utilization of salt and drought tolerant forage species"
Glenflorrie Field Day
Glenflorrie, 28 October 2015
"Monitoring cattle position and movement using the Taggle system at De Grey Station"
Pastoral Industry Innovation Conferences
- Goldfields (Kalgoorlie) 22 - 23 September 2015
- Murchison (Mt Magnet) 21-22 October 2015
- Gascoyne (Gascoyne Junction) 12-13 November 2015
"Diet diversity means more dollars - how livestock can self supplement in the rangelands"
Perennial grazing shrubs - more than meets the eye
South West Catchment Council, Keyline farming demonstration, Boyup Brook, June 2015
"A discussion on integrating perennial native forage shrubs into Keyline farming"
Perennial grazing shrubs: vertical real estate to help livestock, land and livelihoods
Koojan-Gillingarra LCDC Field Day, organized by the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, May 2015
Can we remove the term ‘marginal’ when describing parts of the farming landscape? Perhaps we can if we use forage plants that suit the challenging environments we have to work with.
Rangelands Self Herding: Positively influencing grazing distribution to benefit livestock, landscapes and people
Australia Rangelands Society Conference, Alice Springs, April 2015
Click here to see a 15 minute presentation by Dean at the Australian Rangeland Society conference, which was held in Alice Springs in April 2015. It provides an overview of self herding principles and practices, and includes some examples of its application.
Using animals to increase on-farm biodiversity:
Regional NRM field day in partnership with the ‘Connecting Biodiversity Across the Wheatbelt of WA’ program
Australian native shrubs: delivering benefits to livestock, soils, plants & people:
Nutrition Society of Australia, Hobart, Tasmania, November 2014
Understanding diet selection in grazing livestock:
Grasslands Society of Southern Australia conference, June 2014 Ballarat, Victoria
Supplementary feeding of grazing livestock – Principles and practices:
Dry Start Forum, June 2014, Esperance, WA