BIGG Event Presentations

2017 Maximising Profit in a Variable Climate workshop

• Soil moisture & climate information to better manage climate variability – Brett Nietschke
• Weather forecasting and business management systems – Robin Schaefer
• Climate outlook and risk management – Peter Hayman

2017 Perfect Pastures Conference

• Pasture research update – Alan Humphries, SARDI
• Improving meat and wool production/100ml of rainfall – Brenton Mosey, Producer & Daniel Schuppan, Landmark
• Pasture Principles package: A practical guide to pasture management – Simon Vogt, Rural Directions
• Using grape mark to overcome feed gaps in pasture production – Mariana Caetano, The University of Adelaide
• Resilience: reshaping your attitude – Ken Solly, Solly Business Services Pty Ltd

2016 Precision Livestock Forum

• Robin Dobos, NSW Dept of Primary Industries: Precision Livestock Management (current at October 2016)
• Michelle Cousins, Cousins Merino Services: Electronic identification – Practical applications of data capture for the stud and commercial producer (current at October 2016)
• Stock Journal article – Real time sensors enhance livestock (13 October 2016)

2016 AgTastic

• AgTastic 2016
• Tony Randall: nrmFarm
• Georgie Keynes: BIGG Watercourse Rehabilitation
• Dale Grey: Seasonal Outlook

2015 Pasture Update

• Therese McBeath: The efficiency and fate of phosphorus fertilisers in pasture systems
• Jeff Braun: Grazing Crops
• Basil Doonan: Logical business decision making and key profit drivers
• Alan Humphries: Lucerne breeding and agronomy update
• Leighton Pearce: UAVs in agriculture

2014 Soil Moisture Workshop

• Soil moisture monitoring and water use efficiency – Peter Toome, EnviroPro Dielectrics
• Soil moisture probes in dryland cropping systems– Tony Craddock, Rural Directions
• Does water = profit– Callum March, Producer (Balaklava)
• Soil moisture monitoring in vineyards– Adam Pietsch, Farmer Johns

2013 Soil Forum

• Optimising the Fertiliser $– Doug Edmeades, Ag Knowledge
• 2013 Soil Survey Results– Simon Ellis, Ellis Farm Consulting
• Recycled Waste Products as Fertilisers– Tony Craddock, Rural Directions
• BIGG Barossa Sustainable Soils Dairy Project (Dairy Effluent Management and Creek Erosion Management)- Sarah Weaver, BIGG Facilitator and Andrew Koch, Producer (Moculta)
• BIGG Soil Moisture Monitoring Project– Brett Nietschke, BIGG Technical Facilitator

2013 Fleurieu Bus Trip

• Barossa- Fleurieu Bus Trip Producer Booklet– April 2013

2012 Pasture Walk

• Barossa ‘Pasture Walk’ Bus Trip Case Study Booklet– October 2012