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Eyre Peninsula Leadership Development Program
Are you interested in furthering your leadership skills? Do you know someone who is an upcoming leader in your community? Regional Development Australia Eyre Peninsula, in conjunction with Champions Academy, is offering an exciting new development opportunity to EP locals. If you are passionate about your local organisations, want to build a strong and resilient…
Late season leads to farmer stress
Many farming families across the Eyre Peninsula are dealing with higher-than-average stress and exhaustion following an unusually late harvest. With many still reaping well into New Year period, the usual downtime and family leave has been scarce. This also applies to advisors and other industry personnel, who are providing advice and support to farmers over…
New staff at SARDI Minnipa Ag Centre
A warm welcome to new staff that have recently joined the Minnipa Agricultural Centre. Zhaohan (Elijah) Luo: Elijah graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Honours) at the University of Adelaide in 2021. He has previously undertaken an internship at the Biometry Hub at the University of Adelaide where he studied experimental design and data…
AIR EP Lower EP Ag Expo – this week!
This is a free event, but registrations are essential, go to: www.airep.com.au/event/lepagexpo23
Late season leads to farmer stress
PHOTO: A/Prof Kate Gunn (centre) at the Mount Cooper family farm with Angus, Lucy, Jess and Evie Gunn. Many farming families across the Eyre Peninsula are dealing with higher-than-average stress and exhaustion following an unusually late harvest. With many still reaping well into New Year period, the usual downtime and family leave has been…
Mallee seeps survey for EP farmers – closing soon
If you are a farmer on Eyre Peninsula, and you have (or suspect you have) any Mallee seeps on your property, can you please complete the survey? Thanks very much to those that have completed the survey!! It takes an average of 7 minutes to complete and is mostly tick box responses. This information is…
AIR EP Lower EP Ag Expo – have you registered?
This is a free event, but registrations are essential, go to: www.airep.com.au/event/lepagexpo23
Building Drought Resilience – What’s required?
Eyre Peninsula has the opportunity to build its ability to cope through droughts in the future. This short 5 question survey asks the questions about what needs to be done / put in place to achieve that? The region, via AIR EP in partnership with the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) can then…
Farm safety workshops
https://ruraledgeaustralia.glueup.com/event/national-farm-safety-workshop-south-australia-online-67581/ https://ruraledgeaustralia.glueup.com/event/national-farm-safety-workshop-south-australia-online-67583/ The workshop will be based on Federal legislation and will contain information about the nuances of each individual state’s legislation. The workshops are tailored to the four largest agricultural industries in Australia: Broadacre, Horticulture, Viticulture and Livestock. The program will be targeted at farm business owners and will result in the development…