Exhibitions, entertainment and displays

• Felton Food Festival

  Stalls: The Barefoot Baker, Budgee Garlic and Herbs, Golden Ark Honey, Rosbrook Pastoral, Jalbirri Googum and Granite Belt Brewery

  Time: 5:30pm – 9pm

  Location: Shingle Roof and Showring

  About: Produce stalls – sale and sample.

• The Tiniest Winemakers

  Speaker: Ursula Kennedy

  Time: 6:15pm-6:45pm

  Location: Windmill Gallery

  About: Ursula Kennedy, Viticulturist and Oenologist from University of Southern Queensland, will explore some of the tiniest creatures that are crucial of making good wine – and also may lead to good wine going bad – wine microorganisms.

• Automation for Precise Irrigation and Crop Sensing

  Speaker: Dr Alison McCarthy

  Time: 7pm-7:30pm

  Location: Windmill Gallery

  About: Dr Alison McCarthy, Research Engineer at University of Southern Queensland’s National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, will speak about her research and development of robotic systems reducing labour in plant growth monitoring, which could potentially optimise the irrigation of field crops.

  Attendees will hear from her research and development of low cost camera-based sensing systems to reduce labour in plant growth monitoring, which could potentially optimise the irrigation of field crops.

  Her current projects involve the variable-rate irrigation of cotton, dairy, horticulture and sugarcane crops via lateral move and centre pivot irrigation machines and surface irrigation systems.

   

• Science with Farmers

  Speakers: Greg Platz, Vicki Green and Allan Richards

  Time: 7:45pm-8:45pm

  Location: Windmill Gallery

  About: This discussion will investigate how science is changing agriculture.

  Greg Platz

  Greg is a principal pathologist with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. He has a lifetime of experience with diseases in cereals and has worked closely with wheat, barley and oats breeders in the development of resistant varieties. Over almost half a century, Greg has witnessed first-hand how science has changed many research disciplines in the pursuit of disease resistant crops.

  Vicki Green

  Vicki grew up on a sheep and cropping farm at Corrigin in Western Australia before studying Agricultural Science at UWA and then working for the WA Department of Agriculture. She moved to Queensland in 1997, initially working as a commercial agronomist for IAMA. Vicki has worked for Landcare, and been on the GRDC Northern Panel and helped her husband Andrew expand their farming operation at Felton.

  Allan Richards

  Alan started producing hydroponic figs as a trial of 50 trees in between truss tomatoes/cucumbers and eggplant, mainly because he loved figs and fig jam. These 50 plants expanded to 150 then to 350 then progressively over the last 3 years to total 3500 plants.

• Linda Capewell

  Time: 5:30pm-9pm

  About: Enjoy the vocals of local lovely Linda Capewell as you to her blend of acoustic folk pop sound.