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Final Evaluation Of The North East Agricultural Region (Near) Strategy, Andrew Blake, Don Burnside, Vicki Williams

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Step Workshops - Guide For Facilitators, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia

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The STEP workshops can be run as independent modules or as part of the ?A Million Hectares for the Future? workshop series of which the overarching learning outcome is: Participants will be able to identify and make informed decisions to profitably manage salinity on their farms. Outlines the preferred pathway for the modules in the Million Hectares for the Future series.

Asian Wheat Market And Food Experience For Growers : A Final Report For The Grains Research And Development Corporation Project Daw637, Ben Curtis

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This project was designed to set up a course which would allow Australian wheat growers and their partners to get closer to the markets that buy their wheat in order to learn more about some of the quality issues that affect the end products. This form of education should assist the wheat industry to move with these changing markets to lean more about them and build some supply chain linkages. This will also help improve grower responsiveness to changing market needs and increase the production of quality wheat.

Progress Rural Western Australia Conference : A Conference Focusing On How To Bring Out The Best In Your Community, 13 And 14 August 1999, New Norcia, Western Australia : Conference Proceedings, Progress Rural Western Australia

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The Objective

The 1999 Progress Rural WA Conference aims to build on the skills and exposure that many delegates have already had to inspiring and innovative practice from across the globe and the excellent practice currently being implemented by rural West Australians.

Our keynote speakers have been selected on their ability to paint the big picture - we want to heighten the excitement, push people beyond their comfort zones and stretch peoples thinking.

From project workshops and feedback across the state, we hear a number of common issues. The workshop themes have been developed to provide an action learning experience …

Rural Industry Scholarship In Agriculture : Final Report Of The Grains Research & Development Corporation For The Grain Research Committee Of Wa, John Allan

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In 1986 the Western Australian Government established an undergraduate scholarship in agricultural science. The scholarship was introduced to attract high calibre students into agricultural science as an alternative to highly rewarded professions such as medicine, law and commerce. The State Wheat Industry Research Committee and Barley Industry Research Committee subsequently provided funding to support the scholarship. In 1992 the Grains Research and Development Corporation agreed to ongoing funding on behalf of the Grains Industry.

Farmer Groups - A Fad Or The Future, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia

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The question I have asked is 'Are farmer groups a fad or the future?' I believe there is no question about it. Farmer groups ARE an important part of future agricultural extension. With shrinking government resources devoted to extension, a farmer group approach has many advantages. These advantages have been shown in Western Australia with landcare catchment groups and lice cell groups and these have been recognised by both extension workers and farmers. What makes these groups different to groups of the past? Farmer groups have come and gone in an almost cyclical fashion. An exception is the Kondinin Group, …

An Investigation Into The Government Extension Services Operating In South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, North And South Island, New Zealand : June 1 To July 7, 1991, Philip Hawker

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Brian Carlin Memorial Award Study Tour Report

Farming Systems Consultancy Australian Co-Operation With The National Agricultural Research Project Thailand, D A. Morrison

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The purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen farming systems research methodology in the Thai Department of Agriculture (DOA) and in particular, the Department's Farming Systems Research Institute (FSRI). It follows from:

(i) the consultancy of Martin (1984) who found that DOA staff were having difficulty working out how to analyse farming systems; and

(ii) the three month stay in Australia of Pairat Duangpiboon to introduce him to the modelling techniques used in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture to analyse farming systems.

Farmers' Use Of Agricultural Information 1983, P W. Fry, K F. Goss

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The Western Australian Department of Agriculture produces information for farmers which is disseminated through various mass media, The Australian Broadcasting Commission and commercial media outlets provide further agricultural information, In 1983 a telephone survey of cereal-sheep farmers was undertaken to determine what information sources were used by farmers, and how farmers used that information.

A number of information processing factors were taken from communication research literature, These were accessibility and availability; surveillance and exposure; selection; storage and retrieval. From within this theoretical framework, information sources such as farming magazines, radio and television programmes were examined.

Special attention was given to …

Report On Overseas Study Tour June/July 1970, S T. Smith

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The above tour was organized by the Department of Primary Industry from monies allocated from CESG funds. The objects of study were stated as including basic extension philosophy and objectives, organizational aspects, roles of Universities and colleges in extension training and extension research, staff recruitment and development and roles of staff trained at different levels, research extension liaison, far management extension and extension methods, programme development and evaluation. The group included a representative from each State and from the Commonwealth Department of Primary Industry.

Structure Of Extension Services Wa, Extension Conference 1962., J P. Eckersley

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Prepared for the Australian Agricultural Extension Conference, Hawkesbury, N.S.W.

Agricultural Extension In New Zealand, F L. Shier

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"This report is the outcome of a tour of New Zealand during November and December, 1953 made possible through the recommendation of the Western Australian Director of Agriculture (Mr G.K. Baron Hay) and financed under the Commonwealth Extension Services Grant".