Managing The Carbon Cycle

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A Two day Workshop


PROGRAM
TUESDAY 25 JULY
5.00 - 7.00 pm   Delegates please attend Registration Desk 
                        Horsham Sports & Community Club

WEDNESDAY 26 JULY
8.00am        Late registrations, tea and coffee
8:45am        Welcome and introduction
                   Christine Jones, Gordon Edmonds, Rod Rush

Organic carbon - what's in it for soils?
9.00 am       Ray O'Grady 'Importance of soil carbon'
10.00 am     Ray O'Grady 'The Terra Preta phenomenon'
11.00 am     MORNING TEA

Improving soil carbon management
11.45 am     Andre Leu 'Organics and soil carbon'
12.25 pm     Rod Rush 'Understanding mycorrhizal fungi'
1.05 pm       LUNCH

Changing the way we do business
2.15 pm       Tony Sherer 'Getting the basics right'
2.55 pm       Tim Starick 'Carbon and biological farming"
3.35 pm       Michael and Louisa Kiely 'Carbon Coalition'
4.15 pm       Close of Day One
  
6.30 pm GALA DINNER featuring Gordon Edmond's lively bush poetry, plus music and songs with a carbon theme - an entertaining evening guaranteed!!
DAY TWO
THURSDAY 27 JULY
8.00 am       Tea and coffee
8.45am        Gordon Edmonds - introduction

A new era
9.00 am       Bob Mackley 'Sacred cows with zebra stripes'
9.40am        John Hanley 'Organic grain and fodder production'
10.20am      MORNING TEA

Yearlong Green Farming (YGF)
11.10am      David Marsh 'Carbon farming through regenerative grazing'
11.50 am     Colin Seis 'Carbon farming through Pasture Cropping'
12:30pm      LUNCH

Mitigating greenhouse gases - Victorian initiatives
2.00pm        Liz Clay 'Positioning soil in the carbon market'
2.40 pm       Andrew Helps 'Carbon Partners: carbon, energy and water'
3.30 pm       AFTERNOON TEA
4.00 pm       Close
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REGISTRATION: Places for this information packed two day forum are limited. Registration deadline 14 July 2006. Visit http://www.amazingcarbon.com/
or contact UNE Conference Company (02) 6773 2154


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