dairy youth australia


	Dairy Youth Australia Inc is a network of young people who share a passion to tell others about the pivotal role Australian farmers play in feeding the world. Dairy Youth Australia Inc is committed to developing within the broader Australian population a deeper understanding of and greater respect for, the essential role played by Australian farmers in producing food and supporting the nation's economy, community and rural amenity. To achieve this goal Dairy Youth Australia deliver self managed events and activities which focus on youth, career opportunities, the arts and community – all linked with agriculture. Originally formed to share dairy farming experiences with school students and the wider community, we have now extended our brief beyond dairy. Recognising primary industries share common ground, we have tailored our new programs to both enhance the image of agriculture and encourage young people to consider agribusiness as a future. Our school programs are education and awareness focused and use creative arts and multimedia to engage urban and rural students in the challenges of primary production, such as the land degradation, dwindling water supplies and climate change. Our 2010 Art4Agriculuture initiatives partner with Landlearn NSW and other sponsors and include: 1. The Cream of the Crop Competition invites students involved in primary industry and natural resource management studies to create a PowerPoint about a unit of their studies with the chance to win cash prizes for their efforts. The winning entries will be loaded on the web providing contemporary authentic, positive and popular stories about agriculture and the environment written by young people for young people. This initiative is vital as the changes to the way farmers manage their properties have moved much faster than educational resource development. 2. The Archibull Prize –invites students in suburban high schools to learn through hands on experience about the challenges of housing and feeding the world with a declining natural resource base. The finished artworks and curriculum activities must explore and communicate contrasting stories about the future of agriculture in their local area under the theme "Love it Or Lose Our programs are a true celebration of the people and the places behind the food we eat. They deliver strong rural sustainability messages - not just to the students involved, but also to the wider community. They showcase the positive things farmers are doing and empower them to share their stories. Our activities are genuine, contemporary, engaging, fun and full of hope for a sustainable future. 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 who share a passion to tell others about the pivotal role Australian farmers play in feeding the world.
Dairy Youth Australia Inc is committed to developing within the broader Australian population a deeper understanding of and greater respect for, the essential role played by Australian farmers in producing food and supporting the nation's economy, community and rural amenity.
To achieve this goal Dairy Youth Australia deliver self managed events and activities which focus on youth, career opportunities, the arts and community – all linked with agriculture. Originally formed to share dairy farming experiences with school students and the wider community, we have now extended our brief beyond dairy.
Recognising primary industries share common ground, we have tailored our new programs to both enhance the image of agriculture and encourage young people to consider agribusiness as a future.
Our school programs are education and awareness focused and use creative arts and multimedia to engage urban and rural students in the challenges of primary production, such as the land degradation, dwindling water supplies and climate change.

Our 2010 Art4Agriculuture initiatives partner with Landlearn NSW and other sponsors and include:

1. The Cream of the Crop Competition invites students involved in primary industry and natural resource management studies to create a PowerPoint about a unit of their studies with the chance to win cash prizes for their efforts. The winning entries will be loaded on the web providing contemporary authentic, positive and popular stories about agriculture and the environment written by young people for young people. This initiative is vital as the changes to the way farmers manage their properties have moved much faster than educational resource development.

2. The Archibull Prize –invites students in suburban high schools to learn through hands on experience about the challenges of housing and feeding the world with a declining natural resource base. The finished artworks and curriculum activities must explore and communicate contrasting stories about the future of agriculture in their local area under the theme "Love it Or Lose

Our programs are a true celebration of the people and the places behind the food we eat. They deliver strong rural sustainability messages - not just to the students involved, but also to the wider community. They showcase the positive things farmers are doing and empower them to share their stories. Our activities are genuine, contemporary, engaging, fun and full of hope for a sustainable future.

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.