Second Australian New Crops Conference
in association with ACOTANC-2004

Conference Program at a Glance
(more details below; follow links)

20-21 September	Wednesday 22 September Main Lecture Theatre	Thursday 23 September Main Lecture Theatre (and other venue)	Friday 24 September Main Lecture Theatre
Pre-Conference Workshops	09:00 – 09:50 Welcome and introduction Keynote: Professor Gary Jolliff, Oregon State University	08:00 – 09:30 Plenary Presentations Trends	08:00 - 10:00 Concurrent Sessions 5 and 6 5. Herbs, spices, medicinals and native food 6. Reports
	09:50 – 10:30 Keynote: Mr Derek Foster, Queensland Department of Primary Industries
	Refreshments 10:30 – 11:00	Refreshments 09:30 – 10:00	Refreshments 10:00 – 10:30
	11:00 – 11:45 Keynote: Professor Peter Goldsmith, University of Illinois	10:00 – 12:40 Plenary Presentations Commercialisation	10:30 – 11:30 Workshops 11:30 – 13:00 Plenary Speakers and concluding session
	11:45 – 12:30 Keynote: Dr Simon Hearn RIRDC
	Lunch 12:30 – 14:00	Lunch 12:40 – 13:30	Lunch
	14:00 – 14:45 Keynote: Professor Brad Sherman, ACIPA	13:30 – 15:45 Concurrent Sessions 1 and 2 1. Field crops: Fibres, cereals and pseudocereals 2. Horticultural crops: Fruits & nuts
	Refreshments 14:45 – 15:15	Refreshments 1545: - 16:15
Registration 17:30 – 19:30pm Welcome Reception	15:15 – 16:00 Keynote: Mr Alan Norden APVMA 16:00 – 16:45 Keynote: Marion Healy FSANZ Summary and Wrap up	16:15 – 17:30 Concurrent Sessions 3 and 4 3. Field crops: Oilseeds, legumes and forages 4. Horticultural crops: vegetables and cactus
	6.30 Pre Dinner Drinks 7.00 – 10.00 QDPI&F Conference Dinner	Free evening Business meetings

2^nd Australian New Crops Conference

Innovation and change for agriculture and horticulture

21 – 24 September 2005 DRAFT DAILY PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

MONDAY and TUESDAY 20-21 September
Workshops and Short Courses

Time	TUESDAY 21 September
14.00 - 19.00 17.30 - 19.30	Conference Registration Foundation Building, University of Queensland Gatton Campus Welcome Reception – Foundation Building

Time	WEDNESDAY 22 September Plenary Sessions
09:00 – 10:30	Welcome, introduction (theme: innovation and change in agriculture and horticulture), housekeeping Professor Gary Jolliff, Oregon State University Are new crops worth the effort? Anticipointment. International new crops policy, risk in new crop commercialisation, exclusivity, the problem of the free riders Questions and discussion Mr Derek Foster, Queensland Department of Primary Industries Australian new crops policy, the trends within extension, the nature of rural innovation, the sociology and anthropology of new rural industries, the funding of new crop development in Australia Questions and discussion
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:30	Dr Peter Goldsmith, University of Illinois Networking in new crop industries, the role of the cooperative and new generation cooperatives, limited liability partnerships etc Questions and discussion Dr Simon Hearn, RIRDC, Australia Opening of the conference and launching of the New Rural Industries Handbook (Second Edition) Questions and discussion
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:45	Professor Brad Sherman, Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, Griffith University and ANU (ACIPA) Intellectual property and its role in the development of new crop industries, brands, logos, copyright and plant breeders rights Questions and discussion
14:45 – 15:15	Afternoon Tea
15:15 – 16:45	Mr Alan Norden, Australian Pesticides and Veterinarian Medicines Authority (APVMA), Canberra Regulation of Agricultural Chemicals in Australia – requirements, implications and opportunities for new crops and minor use industries Questions and discussion Marion Healy, Food Standards Australian and New Zealand (FSANZ), Canberra The role of food standards, functional and novel foods, the nature of health claims etc Questions and discussion Summary and Wrap-up
18.30 19.00 – 22.00	Pre Dinner Drinks QDPI&F Conference Dinner

Time	THURSDAY 23 September Plenary Sessions
08:00 – 09:30	Plenary Session – Trends (Up to 45 minutes each) Alan George and Roger Broadley (Australia) Can Australian Horticulture Survive and Meet The Global Challenge? David Milstein (Australia) Food Trends
09:30 – 10:00	Morning Tea
10:00 – 12:30	Plenary Session – Commercialisation (15 Minutes each with 5 minutes for questions) Prof Wijnand Swart and Prof Schalk Louw (South Africa) Holistic new crop development in southern Africa: A novel approach to old issues Dr David Baltensperger (USA) The role of the Universities of Nebraska and Wyoming in development of alternative crops for the US High Plains Dr Lilly Lim-Camacho (Australia) Idealists, operators and achievers: Supply chains in new rural industries - which one are you? Gerry Parlevliet (Australia) Commercialisation of Australian native wildflowers Kim Bryceson (Australia) The Innovator's Dilemma and Solution in New Crop Development - A Case Study of Australian Guar Dr John Faragher (Australia) Food safety issues for new crops Scott Templeman (Australia) New Crop Opportunity or Another Spectacular Failure? Prof Wijnand Swart (South Africa) Disease management strategies in pistachio orchards in South Africa Prof Seef Pretorius (South Africa) The potential of plants with antifungal properties as future new crops
12:40 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:45	Concurrent Session 1: Field crops: Fibres, cereals & pseudocereals (15 Minutes each with 5 minutes for questions) Philip Warner (Australia) Natural Technical Fibres: ' A complete new industry' Tanya Jobling (Australia) On-farm trials of Industrial Hemp for viable commercial production Raylene Hansen (Australia) Industrial hemp trials in the tropics Dr Amir Aynehband (Iran) Introducing the amaranth as a new crop into Iranian cropping system for the first time Dr Peter Lawrence (Australia) Grain pearl millet – a new crop for Australia Prof Wijnand Swart (South Africa) Diseases associated with the cultivation of kenaf in South Africa	Concurrent Session 2: Horticultural crops: Fruits and nuts (15 Minutes each with 5 minutes for questions) Roger Meyer (USA) American Paw Paw-Asimina Triloba David Noel (Australia) Base-Up Tree Crop Design -- designing new tree crop varieties using nature, logic, genetics, and family connections Roger Broadley (Australia) Breeding And Selecting New Varieties And Rootstocks Of Custard Apple (Annona Spp. Hybrids) In Subtropical Australia Prof Daryl Joyce (Australia) Production and post-harvest characteristics of red bayberry (Myrica rubra Sieb. and Zucc.): a brief overview Prof Schalk Louw (South Africa) Patterns over time: Implications of insect phytophagy on pistachio development in South Africa Sergey Rodikov (Russia) Effect of solar radiation on apples warming up and fruit damage during vegetation
15:45 – 16:15	Afternoon Tea
16:15 – 17:30	Concurrent Session 3: Field crops: Oilseeds, legumes and forages (15 Minutes each with 5 minutes for questions) Dr James Krall (USA) Performance of Medicago rigidula (WY-SA-10343) over two springs in Southeastern Wyoming Margaret Campbell (Australia) Alternative Oilseeds for Southern Australia Paul Saffigna (Australia) Carbon sequestration.	Concurrent Session 4: Horticultural crops: vegetables and cactus (15 Minutes each with 5 minutes for questions) Roger Meyer (USA) Pitaya, Pitahaya, Or Dragonfruit - A New Crop Worthy Of Attention Prof Schalk Louw (South Africa) The importance of sanitation in cactus pear orchards in South Africa: A case study Dr Geoff Woodall (Australia) New vegetable crops from the mega-diverse South West Botanical Province of Australia Daniel White (Australia) Development of sato-imo (Japanese taro) production for export to Japan David Hicks (Australia) Lotus: old crop, new opportunities
19:00	Business meetings - Free evening

Time	FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER Concurrent sessions
08:00 – 10:00	Concurrent session 5: Herbs, spices, medicinals and native food Maarten Ryder (Australia) Cultivation of Native Food Plants in South-eastern Australia Prof Mohammad Jalaluddin (USA) Bitter Melon (Momordica charantia L.) a Vegetable for Special Nutritional and Medicinal Values in America John Burt (Australia) Developing green tea as an export crop in the Manjimup area mainly for the Japanese market Nola Caffin (Australia) Quality and functionality of native plant food products Shelley Everton and Nola Caffin (Australia) Native finger limes – detecting the differences	Concurrent session 6: Reports Stanford Blade (Canada) Crop diversification in western Canada – lessons learned Joe Horak (Australia) Experience with new crop opportunities – Tasmania Angela Sparrow (Australia) Tasmanian Wasabi Jane Parker (Australia) Minimum residue levels in herbs David Bennett and Hongwei Wu (Australia) A template for biofuels
10:00 – 10:30	Morning Tea
10:30 – 11:30	Workshop 1: Research planning for RIRDC Facilitator David Milstein	Workshop 2: Avoiding the pitfalls with New Crops - Resource Information and Tools for Risk Management Facilitator Gary Hutchinson
11:30 – 13:00	Plenary Speakers and concluding session Leading Entrepreneur (Australia) Experience of innovation in new crops Bob Peterson (Australia) Kevin Bacon and …. A small world approach to commercializing innovation Mary Boydell, Chairperson, RIRDC (Australia) RIRDC, this conference and future directions in new crops research Concluding remarks Dr Rob Fletcher
1300	Lunch

SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

Tuesday Evening:
Welcome Reception for conference delegates

Wednesday evening:
Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries Conference Dinner

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[Followed by 4^th International Crop Science Congress]
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
26 September – 1 October 2004

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