1.00-4.00pm

Posters to be delivered and positioned

4.00pm

Registration desk opens

5.00-7.00pm

Welcome drinks in Exhibition foyer

8.30am

Official Opening

9.00am

Prof. Phil Pardey - Global agricultural trends: impact and role for Australian agriculture and agronomy research

9.50am

Dr Brian Keating - Emerging opportunities for Australian agriculture

10.30am

Morning Tea

11.00am

Concurrent Sessions

12.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm

Concurrent Sessions

2.30pm

Facilitated Poster sessions

3.00pm

Break

3.30pm

Useful or useless: the agronomists’ harvest from the concurrent sessions

3:45pm

Dr. Rod Lefroy - Australian agronomy abroad

4.25pm

Prof. Huang Gaobao – China-Australia research collaboration for conservation agriculture

4.45pm

Prof. Beth Woods - Agronomy looking forward, thinking broadly

5.10pm

Close

6.30pm

BBQ on the banks of the Torrens

8.35am

Dr Mark Howden - Farming in an uncertain climate

9.15am

Dr. Peter Hayman and Dr. Anthony Whitbread - Incorporating chance into agronomic recommendations

9.35am

Barry Mudge & Andrew Polkinghorne - Farmer perspectives on managing variability and climate change

10.00am

Morning Tea

10.30am

Concurrent Sessions

12.00pm

Facilitated poster session

12.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm

Useful or useless: the agronomists’ harvest from the concurrent sessions

1.45pm

Interactive Forum: Agronomy for who? What will Australian farms look like in 2020? Facilitated by Professor Tim Reeves and featuring Mick Keogh, Dr. Ross Kingwell and others.

3.00pm

Break

3.30pm

Dr. Stan Cox: The perennial cropping systems of the future

4.20pm

Dr. Alan House:  How much will conservation cost in farming landscapes and what can ecology and agronomy do about it?

4.40pm

Dr. Jim Virgona: Grazing systems for winter cereals

5.00pm

AGM

Free evening

9.10am

Professor Peter Langridge -  From gene discovery to paddock reality

9.50am

Dr. Graeme Hammer – The missing link between molecular biology and crop improvement (functional whole plant modelling)

10.10am

Dr. Alan McKay - Applying DNA technology for root mapping

10.30am

Morning Tea

11.00am

Concurrent sessions

12.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm

Concurrent sessions

2.30pm

Facilitated poster sessions

3.00pm

Break

3.30pm

Useful or useless: the agronomists’ harvest from the concurrent sessions

3.45pm

Dr. Pamela Zwer & Mick Faulkner - From breeding to agronomy packages with a farmer and market focus

4.00pm

Donald Oration

4.50pm

Final overview

5.00pm

Close

6.30pm

Conference Dinner – at Adelaide Wine Centre