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AgriFocus 2025

Southern Farming Systems’ Premier Technical Event

AgriFocus is the leading field day for high rainfall zone farming systems, offering farmers and agronomists direct access to cutting-edge research and expert insights.

📅 Date: 15th October 2025
📍 Location: SFS Streatham Trial Site

🎟️Tickets here…

Now in its fifteenth year, AgriFocus features:

🧑‍🌾Key Note Sessions:

  • The Long View: Farming, Innovation & Glyphosate Across Generations & the Globe with Harm Van Rees.
  • Biofuels the opportunity for the Canola industry with Andrew Ham, Nuffield Scholar.

🔗The “choose your own adventure” matrix of field proof-of-concept trials and expert-led discussions include:

  • Nitrogen & Crop Management – yield curves, products & responses
  • Wheat Variety Disease (Winter & Spring Varieties) – Fungicide strategies, sowing time vs disease pressure
  • Barely Variety Disease Resistance – Sowing times, Fungicide strategies
  • Pulses & Nutrition – Benchmarking for nutrient value and quality
  • Faba Bean Agronomy – Seeding Depth & Timing
  • Oat Variety Evaluation – Oat varieties from RAGT in the HRZ
  • Farming Systems South – crop selection, rotation, time of sowing and nitrogen decisions learnings from the last 2 years.
  • Canola varieties: time of sowing & seeding depth effects
  • Herbicide matrix: actives, crop safety and efficacy – Premier Ag Consultancy Group
  • Lime strategies for soil acidity management in Lentils
  • Soil pit profile & insights
  • AMAZONE ZA-TS Spreader & Vaderstad Topdown
  • Drone Demonstration: multispectral mapping & crop health monitoring
  • VIMOY® iblon®: Bayer’s new fungicide for wheat & barley disease control
  • YaraVita BRASSITREL PRO micronutrient timing for canola resilience & yield
  • Enhancing canola & wheat performance with Active AgriScience products
  • Drone demonstration: spraying capabilities

👀Partner exhibits: Swayn & McCabe Claas Harvest Centre, RAGT, Riordan, Knuckeys, Alvan Blanch, Active AgriScience, FMC, AGF Seeds,  Mobble, Ag Logic, Agriculture Victoria, Farming IT, Gorst Rural Supplies, Loam Bio, SLTEC Fertilizers, Sub Gro, Victorian Drought Innovation Hub, CIRTA Drones, Soil Science Australia, EE Group Pty Ltd and many more…

💬 “If you’re farming in the high rainfall zone, this is a field day not to be missed. Access to research trials in your own backyard is priceless.” – Michelle McClure, AgriFocus Coordinator

🎯 Help us continue pushing boundaries in HRZ farming—your support matters!

📄 Event Program:

🍽️ Catering: Snacks & Coffee at retail prices, Complimentary BBQ lunch & drinks.

🎟️Tickets here…

📧 More Info: Contact Michelle McClure at mmclure@sfs.org.au

 

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