Future events
State Horticulture Update
Supporting Western Australian horticulture businesses to achieve international competitiveness and industry growth.
This inaugural event focuses on strategies that WA horticulture businesses can use to become internationally competitive. The forum supports DAFWA’s key goal to enable the agriculture and food sector to double in value by 2025.
The event will provide WA growers with access to timely market information, grower case studies and industry research to explore new market opportunities. It will feature a presentation on the ‘Pathways to competitiveness’ report, commissioned by DAFWA and available to view here; panel discussions on areas including achieving international competitiveness, removing barriers to export growth, biosecurity and market access including a strategic update on response to tomato potato psyllid; and the opportunity to hear from leading horticulture businesses and industry representatives.
When: 10.00am – 4.00pm Thursday 6 April 2017
Where: Crown Perth Convention Centre
RSVP: More information and to register visit the event webpage.
Chardonnay and Shiraz clone regional tasting
Grape growers and winemakers interested in clonal variation of Chardonnay and Shiraz are invited to attend a tasting held by the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia. The tasting will consist of up to five clones of Chardonnay from the Riverland, Margaret River and Great Southern for comparison. Also included will be six clones of Shiraz sourced from the Barossa, Margaret River and Grampians wine regions.
The wines for this tasting have been supplied through the national research project assessing the clonal variability in Chardonnay and Shiraz for future climate change. Attendees will gain a better appreciation of how clonal selection can influence wine style and how clones perform in contrasting climates.
When: TBC (after vintage)
Where: Margaret River
Further details will be provided closer to the event but early expressions of interest can be sent to Richard Fennessy.
Margaret River Viticultural & Horticultural Trade Day
The Trade Day will feature a full schedule of trade exhibitions, demonstrations and a light lunch, along with informative presentations by expert speakers.
When: 9.30am – 3.30pm Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Where: Cowaramup District Social Club
ASVO Seminar
The Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology (ASVO) is proud to announce that it will bring together the leaders in data, science, technology and engineering at its annual seminar in Mildura in August 2017. The global technological landscape is changing and the wine industry is responding. Local and international guest speakers will explore the present and emerging opportunities for the wine industry in an engaging and interactive format.
The seminar program will be headlined by Dr Mike Briers AO, CEO of the Knowledge Economy Institute, and Dr Maria Paz Diago, of the Institute of Grapevine and Wine Sciences (ICVV) Universidad de La Rioja, Spain. Briers was named in the Knowledge Nation 100 as Australia’s chief evangelist for big data and the internet of things (IoT) and brings his vision to empower Australia’s food industry to grow its comparative advantage through digital transformation. Dr Diago’s research is focused on the application of new technologies to the vineyard and she will share her insights into digital measurement of yield, canopy porosity, fruit composition and soil mapping and monitoring.
When: 2 – 3 August 2017
Where: Mildura, Victoria
More information: https://www.asvo.com.au/events