2019 APEN Conference Presentations
Speakers were given the opportunity to have their power-point presentations made into a pdf and made available on the APEN website. The pdfs of those who agreed are provided below.
Keynote speakers
John Pickering, Behaviour Innovation - Whose Behaviour Should we Change? A Behavioural Scientist's Perspective on Extension
Peter Ellerton, University of Queensland - Critical Thinking: the ultimate 21st century skill
Aimee Snowden, Little Brick Pastoral - Sharing agriculture with the LEGO Farmer
Fiona Simpson, National Farmers Federation - Agriculture's Road to $100 Billion
Thursday_International Extension
Subhasis Mandal - Cropping system intensification for small-holder farmers in coastal salt-affected areas in West Bengal, India - Options and Determinants
Georgie McCarthy - How agricultural extension leads to practice change
Roy Murray-Prior - Behavioural science insights into application of conservation agriculture in the East Ganges Plains
Peter Walton - Enhancing access to agricultural information and knowledge in the Pacific Islands: a strategic model
Thursday_Sustainable Ag
Sarah Hain - Behaviour change and building trust in the mango supply chain
Carl Larsen - Learn, Experience, Connect - continuing to drive innovation in extension in the Australian vegetable industry
Clinton McGrath - Multi-modal extension creates real vegetable exports and an improved understanding for growers of free trade agreements
FridayAM_Climate & Environment
Lana Hepburn - Prioritisation in practice
Con Simos - Does provision of better coffee at seminars promote increased adoption?
Roy Murray-Prior - Building climate resilience in farm businesses: how effective was the Farm Planning program?
John Noonan - Facilitating a more climate resilient future for farm businesses
FridayAM_Sustainable Agriculture
Bruce Maynard - Everything I Need to Know about Extension I learned from my cows
Angela Hammond - Profitable Grazing Systems
Kylie Hopkins - The P message Improving phosphorus nutrition management with a new extension approach
Breanne Brown - Bridging the gap beyond soil testing and true practice change for improved fertiliser management in the Geographe catchment of Western Australia
FridayAM_International Extension
Sandra Heaney-Mustafa - Development of Farmer Integrated Learning Model (FILM)
Clinton Muller - The Potential of International Landcare in Agricultural Extension
Thivahary Geretharan - Agricultural Support Service Provision - voices of smallholder farmers from post-war northern Sri Lanka
Clinton McGrath - Collaborative effort to export strawberries to Hong Kong and Macau
FridayPM_Technology & Innovation
Jude Matusiewicz - What the FEC Lessons learned from initiating extension within Australia's horse industry
Adrian Englefield - NSW DPI VineWatch - Connecting the NSW wine industry
Belinda Pritchard - Young Farmer Business Network Connecting young farmers with farm business information
Nicole Sallur - FutureBeef Cooridnated and Collaborative delivery of online information for the northern beef industry
Ruth Nettle - On-line learning micro-credentialling and the flipped classroom - new arenas for professional development in extension
FridayPM_Rural Community & Health
Jeanette Gellard - Empowering women to radically change the way agriculture is portrayed at the Thriving Women 2018 Conference
Nadeesha Jayasena - Smallholder participation in milk markets in Sri Lanka: A livelihood analysis
Alexandra Hicks - The Young Farmer Business Program