Running from 8.45 am-12.00 pm, the forum’s topics include:

• Biosecurity, managing external pest and disease risks – Nick Pyke, FAR;
• Opportunities to reduce soil-borne diseases – Jen Linton, FAR;
• TPP this season, what are the options? – Jessica Dohmen-Verejssen and Peter Wright, Plant & Food Research;
• Future technologies for zebra chip management – Gail Timmerman-Vaughan, Plant & Food Research;
• Potato impacts on soil quality – Jen Linton, FAR and Stephen Dellow, Plant & Food Research;
• Precision, Ag: What’s driving variability in potato yield and tuber size? – Alister Holmes, FAR;
• Plus a regional round up and discussion.

Lunch will follow the workshop, which has been kindly sponsored by Peracto.

The environmental workshop will run from 1.30-4.30 pm and will cover topics such as:

• A regional overview on environmental management issues;
• A farmer’s perspective;
• What we are learning from fluxmeters? – Matt Norris, Plant & Food Research;
• Soil erosion; What’s happening in the ‘don’t muddy the water’ project – Andrew Barber, Agrilink;
• Alternative sources of N: legumes vs grass as winter crops – Alister Holmes, FAR.

Participants can register for either or both workshops.  There is no charge for either session.

Please RSVP attendance to the FAR office no-later-than Friday, 12 August. Phone 03-345 5783 or e-mail.