Dated: 18thApril 2011
A split?
Well, you know farmers, more factions than the Popular Front of Judea or the Judean Popular People’s Front. Monty Python fans, stay with us.
The fact is we are breaking with tradition at this year’s Agfest (May 5,6, and 7) and making The Split; we are dividing our site (801 in Eighth Avenue) on the Quercus Park campus into two.
The front section, let’s call it the Popular Front for Farmers, will be the usual showcase for the TFGA’s core activities, as well as the T.I.D.B, WFI, NFF, T.I.A.R, NBN, NRM North, Skills Institute, Drumuster and P.A.S.S.
The what? The irrigators, the insurers, the lab-coat brigade, the comms guys and the guardian angels.
The back section, let’s call it the Forum, is the new bit. That’s where we are going to bring the ideas people face-to-face with farmers to gaze into the crystal ball and look at what life on the farm could be like.
The TFGA has an enormous network of talent upon which to draw, as last year’s biennial conference showed, and we are going to make as much use of that combined brainpower as we can.
We are planning to have a continuous round of presenters talking about the macro and micro issues of rural life – the myriad of new irrigation schemes, the potential benefits that flow from the Wealth from Water program, climate change, biosecurity, the National Broadband Network and that hoary old chestnut, the search for viable alternatives to 1080.
So here’s the program for The Split:
Jan Davis http://www.tfga.com.au/
