Our Webinar recordings

All about soils with David Hardwick - 1 of 4

North Coast Local Land Services and David Hardwick from Soil Land Food bring you this introduction to soils webinar.

This webinar will provide the basics on soils and introduce you to how soils support our farming and food systems in Australia. If you are involved in agriculture on the North Coast, this webinar is for you. The All About Soils webinar series is designed for farmers and land managers to improve soil health and soil management. They will cover a diverse range of topics such as land capability and the influence of geology and landforms on farms through to soil test interpretation, soil chemical properties, moisture and water use.

Kel Langfield, Senior Land Services Officer, Sustainable Agricultural will be your host.

Small Healthy Farms Webinar 2 - Managing Weeds and Farm Biosecurity

Running a small farm or bush block can entail a lot more than you think. The health of pets, livestock, veggie patches and bushland can all take on a different picture of what ‘healthy’ looks like. Preventing the introduction and spread of diseases, pests and weeds onto your land is one of the most important things a landholder can do. Taking biosecurity risks seriously means making it part of your property management, and making those practices second nature.

Learn about weed management and biosecurity basics for your property including the most important weeds and pests to look out for at the moment in the North Coast region.

Small Healthy Farms Webinar 1 - Managing Animal Health and Pests

Running a small farm or bush block can entail a lot more than you think. The health of pets, livestock, veggie patches and bushland can all take on a different picture of what ‘healthy’ looks like. Preventing the introduction and spread of diseases, pests and weeds onto your land is one of the most important things a landholder can do. Taking biosecurity risks seriously means making it part of your property management, and making those practices second nature.

Learn about weed management and biosecurity basics for your property including the most important weeds and pests to look out for at the moment in the North Coast region.

Weather Trends and Forecasting for North Coast NSW Agriculture

If you are involved in agriculture on the North Coast, this webinar is for you.

This webinar will give you an insight into the weather outlook with a focus on North Coast New South Wales (July to September). Luke will fill you in on long term weather trends and help you understand how to get the best out of the Bureau’s forecasts. There will be opportunities for you to ask Luke your weather and forecasting questions.

Julie Dart, Senior Land Services Officer, Agricultural Advice will be your host

Speakers: Dr Luke Shelley joined the Bureau in 2008 after completing a PhD on biodiversity in wetlands and irrigation systems in Northern Victoria. Luke initially worked in the Bureau’s Water Program to develop the National Water Account, before moving into Climate Services to manage the rebuild of the Bureau’s Seasonal Climate Outlook, and then the Improved Seasonal Forecast Service and introduction of the ACCESS-S model.

Forecasting Australia's livestock future Part 2

This is a two part webinar featuring Simon Quilty and brought to you by Local Land Services.

Simon is an independent global beef analyst with over 30 years of industry experience. He will be bringing Northern Tablelands and North Coast livestock producers the most up to date information on the factors influencing future livestock prices. Given the complexity of global markets, as COVID-19 impacts consumer demand in many ways, Simon will look to map out some the current challenges that exist in exporting meat around the world and the impact these challenges will have on cattle and lamb prices for the next two years. Simon will look to present his livestock price forecasts and explain how he arrived at these numbers and with the livestock officers talk about farming strategies during this period.

Your Local Land Services hosts are:

• Max Newsome NTLLS Land Services Officer (Livestock)
• Nathan Jennings NCLLS Senior Land Services Officer (Agriculture Advice)

Session 2 will cover

• Global beef production - India, US, Brazil and Australia
• Assessing US, Japan, Korea, China markets
• Trade agreements
• Opportunities in e-commerce for marketing/selling beef as the world changes post COVID-19
• Forecast on Australian feeder steer prices for 2 years (monthly)
• Forecast on Australian cow prices for 2 years (monthly)
• Forecast on Australian lamb price for 2 years (monthly)
• Developing a strategy

13 May 2020

Forecasting Australia's livestock future Part 1

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This is a two-part webinar featuring Simon Quilty and brought to you by Local Land Services.

Simon is an independent global beef analyst with over 30 years of industry experience. He will be bringing Northern Tablelands and North Coast livestock producers the most up to date information on the factors influencing future livestock prices. Given the complexity of global markets as COVID-19 impacts consumer demand in many ways Simon will look to map out some the current challenges that exist in exporting meat around the world and the impact these challenges will have on cattle and lamb prices for the next two years - Simon will look to present his livestock price forecasts and explain how he arrived at these numbers and with the livestock officers talk about farming strategies during this period.

Your Local Land Services hosts are:

• Max Newsome NTLLS Land Services Officer (Livestock)
• Nathan Jennings NCLLS Senior Land Services Officer (Agriculture Advice)

Session 1

• Australia's cattle cycles - drought versus the rebuild.
• African Swine Fever
• COVID19
• Impact on global food services
• Impact on global retail demand
• High unemployment globally and its impact on consumer spending
• The impact of these events on livestock prices in Australia.
• Preparing for the future.

Speakers: Simon has extensively researched the factors that have driven livestock prices higher over many years, he has just returned from an extensive North American research tour meeting key industry stakeholders