Bouncing Back from Dry Times - Western Victoria
2025-10-01 08:30 - 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | NSW
Join us for the “Bouncing Back from Dry Times” farming conference on October 1, 2025, at the Hamilton Victoria Showgrounds from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM. This event is designed to equip farmers with practical strategies to boost productivity and profitability post-drought.
Hear from industry experts, including Lisa Miller from SFS, who will share insights on improving pasture production after drought. Angus Brown from Mecardo will discuss livestock market trends, helping you navigate market opportunities. Sandy McEachren will cover farm business benchmarking, highlighting key financial metrics for success. Nigel Kerin will inspire with creative approaches to rebuilding and thriving after dry times.
This conference offers actionable tools and knowledge to strengthen your farm’s resilience and growth. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from leading voices in agriculture, network with fellow farmers, and discover innovative solutions to ensure your farm bounces back stronger. Secure your spot for this transformative event and take the first step toward a more productive and profitable future!
Download a copy of the flyer or program here.
Click here to register for the event.

An agricultural scientists view on climate change
2025-11-10 19:30 - 20:30 | Zoom
Webinar Description: Peter will share his experiences of two decades of talking with farmers about climate change and provide an update of developments relevant to the southern red meat industry from three recently released reports: the National Climate Change Risk Assessment, the National Adaptation Plan and the Agriculture and Land Use sector plan.
Registration: Click here to register for the webinar.

Webinar Presenter: Peter Hayman leads SARDI Climate Applications which links the advances in climate science to primary industries in southern Australia. He started his career as an agricultural extension officer and moved into applied research. He has worked to maintain a two-way communication between farmers and science. He was a contributing author to the IPCC Australasian chapter in the sixth assessment report. He is on the national team of the GRDC RiskWi$e project. He is an affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and the Deputy Director of the SA Drought Hub.

SALRC producer dinner and research priorities forum - Tasmania
2026-02-03 17:30 - 20:30 | Blenheim Inn Hotel, 16 Marlborough Street, Longford Tas, 16 Marlborough Street, Longford, Tasmania, Australia
The South-east Victorian and Tasmanian SALRC Regional Committee will be hosting a producer dinner and research priorities forum in Longford, Tasmanian on Tuesday 3rd February 2026 from 5:30pm. The forum will focus on RDE&A investment priorities, innovation and the opportunity for local producers to provide suggestions to inform future research priorities. Highlights include:

Dinner and networking with fellow producers
Updates on MLA Southern Beef projects, virtual fencing, animal health projects, sustainability and emerging opportunities
Producer feedback session: SALRC producer representatives will collect your views on research and development priorities to help drive red meat productivity on your farm and across Tasmania. Your feedback will directly inform future R&D investment decisions, helping ensure your levy dollars return to projects that matter locally.

You can register for the event by clicking here.
SALRC has also been working closely with the team at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and Pinion Advisory in arranging two other events for Tuesday 3 February:
Pasture 365 Farm Walk
Join Tasmanian Pasture 365 lead Rowan Smith for an introduction to the project and a walkover the mixed pasture plots that were sown in October 2025. The project is examining whether some pasture species mixes can be more resilient to extended and more regular periods of dry times. Rowan will discuss key observations including differences in species establishment, weed competition and summer growth.

Date: Tuesday 3rd February 2026
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Hagley School Farm (Church Lane, Hagley – Tas)
For more information, download the Pasture 365 Farm Walk Flyer.

Field day: Improving lamb survival on leguminous pasture
Join Pinion Advisory for a field day focused on the ‘Improving lamb survival on leguminous pastures’ Producer Demonstration Site, a 4-year project driven by the Longford Red Meat Group in Tasmania. This project is demonstrating four different feedbase and grazing management strategies and the link to lamb red gut cases. Over four years the project looks to identify strategies for reducing red gut cases, minimising lamb mortalities, and improving productivity. Attendees will hear from host farmers Sam Lyne (Riccarton, Campbell Town) and Andrew Archer (Chester, Westwood) on experiences and observations from the project to date, receive an update on project preliminary findings and hear from Dr Bruce Jackson (veterinarian consultant) on insights into key lamb diseases and illnesses of relevance to local producers including red gut, toxoplasmosis and more.

Date: Tuesday 3rd February 2026
Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: “Chester”, Westwood
For more information, download the PDS Field Day Flyer.

Livestock 2026
2026-10-21 - 2026-10-22 | The Range Function Centre, 308 Copland Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2650, Australia
Join with SALRC’s producer and investor member network as we explore the potential of artificial intelligence and agtech to transform livestock production, feedbase, animal health and welfare as well as the how we manage the business side of our enterprises.
SALRC’s Livestock 2026 conference will help southern livestock production enterprises turn data into dollars.
Click here to register your interest to attend and receive conference updates.
