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

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd 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

 

 



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

 


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