eastAUSmilk AGM

eastAUSmilk will be holding our annual general meeting on Wednesday 30th of August in Pittsworth at the Pittsworth Motor Inn. The AGM starts at 11.00am with morning tea beforehand and the AGM is due to end by 12.30pm followed by lunch.

A visit to Peter Garratt’s farm at Southbrook is also planned after lunch and is due to commence around 1pm. Peter is one of the leading young farmers in the industry who has transformed his farm over the past 10 years and almost tripled production during this time. Peter is largely a TMR farm and averages over 30L/ cow per day and is a great example to other farmers on what they can do. This farm visit will highlight some of his latest farm improvements including GPS sprayers, concrete silage pits and covered feedpad as well as plans for future development.

This will be followed by a dinner at 7pm with guest speakers Rob Cooper from NSW Department of Primary Industries, who is the chair of the NSW Dairy Action Plan. Rob will speak about the implementation of the NSW dairy action plan including changing farming systems, attracting new entrants and encouraging farmers to expand their business.

Ben Tarrant from Darling Downs Precision will also speak at the dinner. He will discuss the applications of technology including the Weed-IT precision sprayers. The sprayers detect the weeds and only sprays them which saves up to 90% on chemical usage.

The farm visit and dinner are open to all who would like to attend. We look forward to a good turnout with a good number of members having already RSVP’d. We are looking forward to catching up with all attending, if you haven’t yet RSVP’d and would like to attend, please contact us on 07 3236 2955.

Letisha Johnson, eastAUSmilk Project Officer