GSSA Pasture Roadshow 17-18 September 2025

Wednesday 17 September 2025

1.00pm

Visit the Wando Bridge PTN phalaris trial site about 14 km north of Casterton. Location will be advised following registration.

3.00pm

Visit the Strathkellar sub clover PTN site about 4 km south of Hamilton Airport. Location will be advised following registration.

6.30pm

Meet at Speckled Frog, 106 Gray St, Hamilton for a self- paid dinner followed by an online presentation by Allen Newman, Barenbrug 
“Innovation with sub clover breeding and planned release of new sub clover cultivars”

Thursday 18 September 2025

10:00am 

Visit the old Terang DemoDAIRY/RIST Training site, 7161 Princess Highway, Terang.

Inspect tall fescue and phalaris cultivars with Tom Hunt/Liam DeNeefe from DLF. Tony Butler, Andrew

Spiers and Craig Altmann (AGF Seeds) will discuss PTN perennial ryegrass trials at Terang and Larpent (near Colac).

3:00pm

Visit the Southern Farming Systems (SFS) pasture trial site at Rokewood, 1231 Rokewood Shelford Road, Shelford.

Jessie Wettenhall and Lisa Miller from SFS along with Sebastian Leith from Barenbrug and Tom Hunt from DLF will lead the discussion on MLA funded pasture variety trials, pasture nitrogen responses, hyper performing pastures for carbon accumulation, drought recovery species and manipulating old

Australian phalaris pastures to improve productivity by direct drilling sub clover, applying lime, applying more phosphorous, grazing management or by using gibberellic acid vs urea vs liquid N .

6:00pm

SFS pasture site Rokewood , BBQ and drinks for open discussion.

Fee: members $30 + GST
Non-members $100 + GST
Non-members can join the society to receive the member rate. Please wait for confirmation email before registering for the event.

Please register and pay for the event "GSSA Pasture Roadshow 17-18 September 2025" and then indicate whether you intend to attend the GSSA Pasture Roadshow 17 September and/or GSSA Pasture Roadshow 18 September. This gives us an idea of numbers at each event.