Bill is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at the University of Adelaide. Prior to joining the University in 1994, Bill was with the South Australian Research & Development Institute at Turretfield and the NSW Department of Agriculture at Walgett. He completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in the School of Australian Environmental Studies at Griffith University before undertaking his Doctorate at the University of New England.
Bill’s research has focussed on the integration of pastures into cropping systems, and this interest has led him into soil water, soil nitrogen, climate variability and change, and agricultural production system simulation. Bill has studied these topics under rainfed agricultural systems in southern Australia and western China
Murray Unkovich
Editor
Murray is an Adjunct Lecturer at The University of Adelaide. He has a BSc in Biology (Murd.) and MSc and PhD in Botany (UWA).
His research career has primarily focussed on the application of stable isotope techniques to study biological processes and the functioning of ecosystems. He has worked for the Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (1991-1998), contributed to the National Land and Water Resources Audit, and the National Sate of the Environment Report, and worked with the Departments of Primary Industries (Victoria and South Australia). Current projects with the University of Adelaide are looking at farming systems in Western China, and with CSIRO Land and Water on the Australian Greenhouse Office National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS).
Murray edited the proceedings of the 2003 Australian Society Agronomy Conference in Geelong and has taken up this challenge again for the 2008 Adelaide conference.
Bill Long
Committee
Bill is the principle consultant with Ag Consulting Co – an advisory and training business based at Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Agriculture. Ag Consulting Co provides agronomic and business management advice to farmers across SA.
Bill was a founding committee member and consulting agronomist of the Yorke Peninsula Alkaline Soils Group and is closely involved with other farming systems groups such as the Birchip Cropping Group in the development of Yield Prophet®
Bill has lead research and extension activities in the following areas.
Crop topping pulses and cereals
Increasing adoption of controlled traffic systems in SA
Cereal and pulse canopy management research
Leaf disease control in wheat and barley
Management of annual ryegrass
Spray application technology including night spraying of winter crop herbicides and evaluation of efficacy of low drift nozzles
Fluid phosphorus research
Plant growth regulants in cereals
Botrytis and ascochyta control in lentils
Snail management systems
Inter-row sowing
Shrouded spay systems for control of weeds in cereals and pulses
Characterisation of soils in SA for inclusion in Apsoil for use in Yield Prophet®
Bill has been chairman of
Snail Management Advisory group
Topcrop SA
Crop Science Society of SA
GRDC Advisor Update committee
and is a member of many other industry associations.
In addition, Bill farms 1400ha with his wife Jeanette on their properties at Ardrossan and Undalya and is looking forward to showcasing the latest in agricultural techniques to delegates in the conference tour.
Gurjeet Gill
Committee
Gurjeet is Associate Professor and Head of the Discipline of Agricultural and Animal Science at the University of Adelaide.
He has research interests in weed and crop ecology, herbicide resistance and agricultural systems development. His main research activities, together with postgraduate students and research staff, explore behaviour of weed seed-banks, ecology of herbicide resistant weeds, crop-weed interactions and development of weed competitive wheat cultivars. His research is funded by the Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Gurjeet has strong collaborative links with CSIRO Plant Industry. He is a Task Leader (Innovative weed management) in the CRC for Australian Weed Management.
Mick Faulkner
Committee
Mick is a
Jay Cummins
Committee
Jay
Peter Hayman
Committee
Dr Peter Hayman is the Principal Scientist in Climate Applications at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) based at the Waite Institute, a position he has held since May 2004. Prior to moving to Adelaide he was coordinator of climate applications for NSW Agriculture. He is an agricultural scientist with an interest in applying climate information to dryland and irrigated farming systems. Since the early 1990s he has worked with farmers in managing climate risk on a range of projects in NSW, South Australia and The Philippines.
In 2007 he was awarded the Seed of Light Award by the Grains Research Development Corporation for communication of climate change information to the southern grains industry.
Rob Wheeler
Committee
Rob
Nigel Wilhelm
Committee
Nigel.
Rick Llewellyn
Committee
Rick is a Farming Systems Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems based at the Waite Campus, Adelaide. He has an Agricultural Science degree from the University of Adelaide and a PhD in Agricultural & Resource Economics from the University of Western Australia.
Prior to joining CSIRO he was a Lecturer in agricultural systems and extension at the University of Western Australia where he also worked with WA Herbicide Resistance Initiative. He continues to lead research projects into no-till adoption in Australia and herbicide resistance management strategies in Australia and the Philippines.
His current research also includes working with the Mallee Sustainable Farming group in the development of improved crop and land management practices and as part of the CRC for Future Farm Industries.
Anthony Whitbread
Committee
Anthony is a Farming Systems Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems based in Adelaide. He joined CSIRO 9 years ago to work in the mixed crop-livestock systems of northern NSW and southern Queensland to develop and promote the use of pasture rotations as a means of maintaining soil fertility and profitability. In 2007 Anthony and his family moved to Adelaide to apply his knowledge mixed systems and modelling to the southern low rainfall regions. Internationally, he has played a major role in projects throughout southern Africa on the use of tropical legumes for improving forage and grain production and using cropping systems simulation (APSIM) to devise strategies to manage risk in maize-grain legume-based systems. He is currently leading a project funded by ACIAR on improving crop and livestock systems for emerging farmers in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Prior to joining CSIRO, Anthony worked for the University of New England on a range of ACIAR projects focussed on managing soil fertility in the cereal-growing systems of northern NSW and the rice-growing areas of South-East Asia. He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in 1997 for a thesis on the management of soil organic matter, nutrient dynamics and soil structure in dryland cereal systems, also from the UNE. Anthony has authored more than 25 journal articles and book chapters and >50 conference and industry publications.
Therese McBeath
Committee
Therese is a Post-doctoral Fellow with Soil and Land Systems at the University of Adelaide working on a project entitled ‘Understanding and ameliorating subsoil limitations to reduce leakage and recharge and improve water quality in agricultural catchments of South Australia’.
Therese completed her PhD with the University of Adelaide in 2006 investigating the chemistry of soil-fluid fertiliser interactions. Prior to her PhD, Therese was working with the Victorian DPI undertaking field and glasshouse trials for the Fluid Fertiliser Project, and for Wesfarmers Landmark as a consulting agronomist in viticulture.
She is currently the treasurer for the S.A. branch of Australian Society of Soil Science and has been assisting with lecturing of Roseworthy Bachelor of Agriculture students in Soil and Land Management Systems.
Anthony Rathjen
Committee
Anthony
Professor Len Wade
Immediate Past President
Since August 2007, Professor Len Wade has taken up his exciting new position as Strategic Research Professor at Charles Sturt University (CSU), linking with NSW-DPI in the E.H. Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation. For the previous five years, Len was Professor of Crop Agronomy at The University of Western Australia (UWA), in a GRDC-supported Chair. During the nine years before that, Len was Agronomist/Crop Physiologist, Rainfed Program Leader and Consortium Coordinator for Rainfed-Lowland and Flood-Prone Ecosystems across South and Southeast Asia, while based at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines. Early in his career, Len had
18 years with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI), mainly based at Emerald in Central Queensland.
Len has substantial research experience in three major cropping systems:
rainfed wheat-based systems in Mediterranean environments,
rainfed rice-based systems in the humid and subhumid tropics, and
rainfed sorghum-based systems in the semiarid tropics, including physiology of drought avoidance and water productivity, genotype by environment interactions, nutrient by water interactions, system characterisation, establishment and seedling vigour, and risk.
Len's qualifications include a B. Agr. Sc. (Hons) from The University of Queensland in 1974, a Ph.D. from The University of Western Australia in 1988, and Research Fellowships to ICRISAT in India in 1980, and Texas A&M University in the USA in 1989-1990.
Len is a member of the Editorial Boards of Plant and Soil, Field Crops Research, and Plant Production Science, and has more than 100 refereed publications. Len was President for the 13th ASA Conference in Perth.
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Bill is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at the University of Adelaide. Prior to joining the University in 1994, Bill was with the South Australian Research & Development Institute at Turretfield and the NSW Department of Agriculture at Walgett. He completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in the School of Australian Environmental Studies at Griffith University before undertaking his Doctorate at the University of New England.
Murray is an Adjunct Lecturer at The University of Adelaide. He has a BSc in Biology (Murd.) and MSc and PhD in Botany (UWA). 
Bill is the principle consultant with Ag Consulting Co – an advisory and training business based at Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Agriculture. Ag Consulting Co provides agronomic and business management advice to farmers across SA. 
Gurjeet is Associate Professor and Head of the Discipline of Agricultural and Animal Science at the University of Adelaide. 
Dr Peter Hayman is the Principal Scientist in Climate Applications at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) based at the Waite Institute, a position he has held since May 2004. Prior to moving to Adelaide he was coordinator of climate applications for NSW Agriculture. He is an agricultural scientist with an interest in applying climate information to dryland and irrigated farming systems. Since the early 1990s he has worked with farmers in managing climate risk on a range of projects in NSW, South Australia and The Philippines. 
Rob
Rick is a Farming Systems Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems based at the Waite Campus, Adelaide. He has an Agricultural Science degree from the University of Adelaide and a PhD in Agricultural & Resource Economics from the University of Western Australia. 
Anthony is a Farming Systems Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems based in Adelaide. He joined CSIRO 9 years ago to work in the mixed crop-livestock systems of northern NSW and southern Queensland to develop and promote the use of pasture rotations as a means of maintaining soil fertility and profitability. In 2007 Anthony and his family moved to Adelaide to apply his knowledge mixed systems and modelling to the southern low rainfall regions. Internationally, he has played a major role in projects throughout southern Africa on the use of tropical legumes for improving forage and grain production and using cropping systems simulation (APSIM) to devise strategies to manage risk in maize-grain legume-based systems. He is currently leading a project funded by ACIAR on improving crop and livestock systems for emerging farmers in Limpopo Province, South Africa. 
Therese is a Post-doctoral Fellow with Soil and Land Systems at the University of Adelaide working on a project entitled ‘Understanding and ameliorating subsoil limitations to reduce leakage and recharge and improve water quality in agricultural catchments of South Australia’. 
Since August 2007, Professor Len Wade has taken up his exciting new position as Strategic Research Professor at Charles Sturt University (CSU), linking with NSW-DPI in the E.H. Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation. For the previous five years, Len was Professor of Crop Agronomy at The University of Western Australia (UWA), in a GRDC-supported Chair. During the nine years before that, Len was Agronomist/Crop Physiologist, Rainfed Program Leader and Consortium Coordinator for Rainfed-Lowland and Flood-Prone Ecosystems across South and Southeast Asia, while based at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines. Early in his career, Len had
18 years with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI), mainly based at Emerald in Central Queensland.