Correspondence Agenda - Ordinary Council Meeting - 9 July 2013

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2013 Queensland State Landcare Conference | Healthy Habitats … Profitable Production Mr Shayne Joyce – 2012 Winner National Carbon Cocky of the Year Shane is a 3 rd generation beef cattle producer from Theodore. Shane & his wife Shan have been managing their property Dukes Plain for the past 30 years. This year Shane & Shan won both, Innovative Carbon Cocky & Carbon Cocky of the Year Awards, at Carbon Farmers of Australia Dubbo Carbon Farming Week. Shane & Shan have both, an Organic Certified beef cattle breeding & fattening, & a non certified beef cattle trading & fattening enterprises. Dukes Plain is a very diverse landscape with sandstone escarpment, eucalypt forest, brigalow, & semi evergreen vine thicket land types. Shane & Shan have managed their landscape (among other things) for timber retention, diversity of pastures, soil health, diversity of wildlife (above & below ground), & effective use of rainfall, to deliver robust production outcomes. In 2012 Dukes Plain was included in Soils for Life Australia wide case studies “Innovations for Regenerative Landscape Management”. Dr. Nancy A Schellhorn – Principal Research Scientist Dr. Schellhorn is the Team Leader of Spatial Ecology with the CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences Department. She is currently researching ecosystem services through the study of beneficial and pest invertebrates within native habitats and managed environments. Dr. Schellhorn shall talk about her work that focuses on meeting the challenge of maintaining / growing agricultural productivity while minimizing our impact on natural resources. To meet this challenge she and her team have developed and advanced the concept Pest Suppressive Landscapes (PSL), which provides a way of measuring, designing and managing agricultural landscape mosaics for productivity and biodiversity. Dr. Schellhorn shall show examples from projects conducted on the Darling Downs, QLD and southern NSW. Mrs Georgie Somerset – A rural leader with experience in agribusiness, rural tourism and regional development. Georgie Somerset is a beef farmer and rural leader with experience in agribusiness, rural tourism and regional development. Her work involves identifying opportunities, resolving issues and creating linkages and networks across rural sectors. Actively involved in the family owned beef property in Queensland’s South Burnett and mother of three children, Georgie is president of the Queensland Rural, Regional and Remote Women’s Network, is on the board of QRAA and involved with various industry and community groups. Georgie’s life combines cattle yards and board rooms, boarding school parenting and committee chairing and long drives for short meetings. Georgie believes in lifelong learning and education. She knows that accessing information and influencing decision makers is still possible in a remote location if you stay connected. She is also a great believer in the 3 Cs - good coffee, chocolate and conversation. Mr Terry McCosker - Director of Carbon Link Limited and Resource Consulting Services (RCS) Terry is an internationally acclaimed teacher and has worked in research, extension and property management in both government and private sectors for 45 years. Terry has published over 40 papers and made several world first discoveries in the 1980’s in the fields of bull fertility, ruminant nutrition and pasture ecology. Terry co-founded RCS over 25 years ago which has set the benchmark for capacity building in rural and regional Australia. He is responsible for the introduction of the GrazingforProfit School into Australia which now has over 5,000 graduates and has changed grazing, livestock and business management nationally. Terry is a Churchill Fellow, a Fellow of the Tropical Grasslands Society, has chaired the Australian Beef Expo, has sat on numerous advisory committees and has been nominated for many awards. Terry is also a pioneer in the field of soil carbon and carbon farming, having been committed to research and commercial activity in this area for over six years. In this Capacity he is Chairman of Carbon Link Limited, and has led the first, large scale commercial, accurate soil baselining project in the world. Page 2 | www.headwaters.ddrlandcare.org
2013 Queensland State Landcare Conference | Healthy Habitats … Profitable Production Preliminary conference program Friday 27 September 2013 8am 10am Registrations open Official Welcome Key note speaker: Mr Julian Cribb The threats to global food security arising out of the continued degradation of soil and water resources worldwide Key note speaker: Mr Bill Gammage – The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia BBQ Lunch Key note speaker: Major General Michael Jeffrey AC, AO(Mil), CVO, MC (Retd) – Soils for Life Program Afternoon tea Concurrent Sessions: Understand, Engage, & Deliver 5.00pm “Conversations on the Condamine” Sunset drinks and local tasting plates on the banks of the Condamine River, Warwick Saturday 28 September 2013 8am Key note speaker: Dr Nancy A Schellhorn - Using the concept Pest Suppressive Landscapes (PSL) to meet the challenge of maintaining / growing agricultural productivity while minimizing our impact on natural resources. Key note speaker: Mr Shane Joyce - How to achieve a balanced and productive landscape. Morning tea Concurrent Sessions: Research, Adapt & Apply Field trips & Practical Workshops 6pm State Landcare Awards Dinner Sunday 29 September 2013 8am Key Note Speaker: Mr Terry McCosker - Can Carbon farming become a reality? Key Note Speaker: Mrs Georgie Somerset What is profit and how can we build resilience into our business to ensure we will be able to reap the rewards long term. Morning tea Concurrent Sessions: Shaping the Future Plenary Session: Understanding Global / Acting Local Confirmed speakers include: Mr Tony Gleeson (ALMS) & Joanne Grainger, President, QFF 1pm Conference wrap, lunch and depart More information? The website is regularly updated with new information. You might also want to join our conference mailing lists for all the latest news on field trips, workshops, social events and more. Page 3 | www.headwaters.ddrlandcare.org
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