dairy youth australia


	Dairy Youth Australia Inc is a network of young people directly or indirectly involved in on farm activities, studying primary industries or natural resource management courses, or primary industry promotions. The network shares the commitment to develop a deeper understanding of, and greater respect for the role that Australian farmers play in producing food, supporting the nation’s economy, building rural communities and protecting the rural amenity. Dairy Youth Australia Inc vision is to design and deliver community events that are a true celebration of the people and places behind the food we eat. To achieve this goal Dairy Youth Australia Inc conduct events and activities which focus on youth, career opportunities, the arts, the environment and community – all linked with sustainable agriculture. Over the next two years Dairy Youth Australia Inc will roll out the Confidence to Grow program. The Confidence to Grow program provides an opportunity for Dairy Youth Australia members to develop skills and networks through delivery and participation in innovative, fun and successful projects in partnership with a range of stakeholders. Confidence to Grow is a Dairy Youth Australia Inc initiative supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry under its Australia’s Farming Future initiative. Our Confidence to Grow initiatives are education and awareness focused and use creative arts and design to engage urban and rural students in the challenges of primary production, such as the land degradation, dwindling water supplies and climate change. Some of our Achievements Dairy Youth Australia Dairy is a proud contributor to content on LandLearn NSW Visit our SlideShare presentations http://www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/presentations?order=popular Dairy Youth Australia is a proud supporting partner of the Dubbo Speech Spectacular, and spectacular they are! Dubbo Speech Spectacular The winner! The winner of the Dubbo Speech Spectacular, a competition run by LandLearn NSW, was Lachlan Hoyle from Parkes. As part of his prize Lachlan has been invited to deliver a speech at the Cream of the Crop Competition Awards and Presentation Day at Sydney Royal Easter Show this year. Click here to listen to the two minute features of the finalists. Dairy Youth Australia is a proud supporting partner of the Australian Dairy Conference Young Scientist Award Competition. Click here to See us on Facebook. Art4Agriculture project officer selected for national Climate Champion program Farmers from across Australia have joined forces to help their neighbours better manage risks associated with climate and weather. Art4Agriculture project officer and Jamberoo farmer Lynne Strong is one of just over 30 farmers recruited by the national Climate Champion program. Her role is to communicate research about new technologies and practices for dealing with climate variability and climate change to other farmers in her region. This innovative program, launched at the end of March 2010, gives farmers an opportunity to help improve communication between scientists and farmers about managing climate risk in their local areas and for their specific commodities. Lynne with her son Nick and husband Michael run Clover Hill Dairies at Jamberoo. Clover Hill Dairies is a finalist in the 2010 National Landcare Awards to be held in Canberra in June. Lynne has joined the Climate Champion program because she is interested in sharing knowledge with other interested farmers and learning better ways to adapt her own farming practices to a variable climate. The program, which is being run by the Managing Climate Variability program and is funded by Australia’s major research and development corporations including Dairy Australia. “This exciting initiative gives us an opportunity to help raise awareness and discussion within farming communities about new innovations for managing variable climatic conditions” she says. “I’m participating in the Climate Champion program, not because I know all the answers, but because I am interested in learning about better ways to adapt my own farming practices to a variable climate and I like sharing knowledge with other interested farmers. I am excited about having input into research into new farming practices, that can help me better manage my farm business in a variable climate. This two-way flow of ideas and information will help target research to produce practical outcomes for farms”. Participants in the Climate Champion program will have direct access to the latest climate-related research findings, allowing them to influence the development of new climate risk management tools and technologies and run trials on their own farms. Through their own networks, they will share information about the research with other farmers, along with their own experiences of adopting different tools and practices.

Dairy Youth Australia Inc is a network of young people directly or indirectly involved in on farm activities, studying primary industries or natural resource management courses, or primary industry promotions.
The network shares the commitment to develop a deeper understanding of, and greater respect for the role that Australian farmers play in producing food, supporting the nation’s economy, building rural communities and protecting the rural amenity.
Dairy Youth Australia Inc vision is to design and deliver community events that are a true celebration of the people and places behind the food we eat.
To achieve this goal Dairy Youth Australia Inc conduct events and activities which focus on youth, career opportunities, the arts, the environment and community – all linked with sustainable agriculture.
Over the next two years Dairy Youth Australia Inc will roll out the Confidence to Grow program.
The Confidence to Grow program provides an opportunity for Dairy Youth Australia members to develop skills and networks through delivery and participation in innovative, fun and successful projects in partnership with a range of stakeholders.
Confidence to Grow is a Dairy Youth Australia Inc initiative supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry under its Australia’s Farming Future initiative.
Our Confidence to Grow initiatives are education and awareness focused and use creative arts and design to engage urban and rural students in the challenges of primary production, such as the land degradation, dwindling water supplies and climate change.

Some of our Achievements

Dairy Youth Australia Dairy is a proud contributor to content on LandLearn NSW
Visit our SlideShare presentations http://www.slideshare.net/LandLearnNSW/presentations?order=popular

Dairy Youth Australia is a proud supporting partner of the Dubbo Speech Spectacular, and spectacular they are!
Dubbo Speech Spectacular
The winner!
The winner of the Dubbo Speech Spectacular, a competition run by LandLearn NSW, was Lachlan Hoyle from Parkes. As part of his prize Lachlan has been invited to deliver a speech at the Cream of the Crop Competition Awards and Presentation Day at Sydney Royal Easter Show this year.
Click here to listen to the two minute features of the finalists.

Dairy Youth Australia is a proud supporting partner of the Australian Dairy Conference Young Scientist Award Competition.

Click here to See us on Facebook.

Art4Agriculture project officer selected for national Climate Champion program

Farmers from across Australia have joined forces to help their neighbours better manage risks associated with climate and weather.

Art4Agriculture project officer and Jamberoo farmer Lynne Strong is one of just over 30 farmers recruited by the national Climate Champion program. Her role is to communicate research about new technologies and practices for dealing with climate variability and climate change to other farmers in her region.

This innovative program, launched at the end of March 2010, gives farmers an opportunity to help improve communication between scientists and farmers about managing climate risk in their local areas and for their specific commodities.

Lynne with her son Nick and husband Michael run Clover Hill Dairies at Jamberoo. Clover Hill Dairies is a finalist in the 2010 National Landcare Awards to be held in Canberra in June.

Lynne has joined the Climate Champion program because she is interested in sharing knowledge with other interested farmers and learning better ways to adapt her own farming practices to a variable climate.

The program, which is being run by the Managing Climate Variability program and is funded by Australia’s major research and development corporations including Dairy Australia.

“This exciting initiative gives us an opportunity to help raise awareness and discussion within farming communities about new innovations for managing variable climatic conditions” she says.

“I’m participating in the Climate Champion program, not because I know all the answers, but because I am interested in learning about better ways to adapt my own farming practices to a variable climate and I like sharing knowledge with other interested farmers. I am excited about having input into research into new farming practices, that can help me better manage my farm business in a variable climate. This two-way flow of ideas and information will help target research to produce practical outcomes for farms”.

Participants in the Climate Champion program will have direct access to the latest climate-related research findings, allowing them to influence the development of new climate risk management tools and technologies and run trials on their own farms. Through their own networks, they will share information about the research with other farmers, along with their own experiences of adopting different tools and practices.