Master Class in Research Management in Agriculture

Held at the Hyde Park Plaza Suites, Sydney

1 - 14 February 2004

Resource Personnel

Darryl Anderson Execuitve Producer Anvil Media Pty Ltd PO Box 405, Crows Nest NSW 1585 Level 1, 454-456 Pacific Highway St Leonards NSW 2065 Tel: 02-9437 6661 Fax: 02-94376633 Email: danderson@anvilmedia.com.au

Professor Bernie Bindon Beef CRC University of New England Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-67733513 Fax: 02-67733500 Email: beefcrc@metz.une.edu.au

Professor Bernie Bindon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cooperative Research Centre for Cattle and Beef Quality, a $60 million project established in 1993. He is the former Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Animal Production and Officer-in-Charge of the Armidale resources of CSIRO. He is well known locally and internationally for research in reproductive biology of cattle and sheep and began his career in beef cattle research in CSIRO, Brisbane in 1963. Since 1990, Bernie Bindon has made a significant contribution to the Australian beef industry by putting in place Australia’s largest integrated research program, designed to understand the genetic and environmental factors influencing beef quality. The CRC for Cattle and Beef Quality, conceived in 1990, recognised the need to integrate genetics, nutrition and meat science in studies of pedigree cattle from Australian seedstock herds. This led to the establishment of the world’s largest progeny test for meat quality traits, based on seven purebreeds and a terminal crossbreeding project based on 1,000 Brahman females and nine sire breeds. At the same time, the CRC initiated world-class research in molecular biology, designed to identify gene markers and candidate genes for carcase and meat quality attributes. In 2001, Australia now enjoys world leadership in these fields with CRC outcomes promising handsome economic return for the domestic and export beef trade through improvements in tenderness, retail beef yield, marbling, net feed conversion efficiency and meat safety. The CRC also established three new industry-funded chairs at the University of New England, to materially change the fact of meat industry education in Australia. The CRC received additional Commonwealth funding for a further seven-year term from October 1999. The project represents a further $83 million for beef quality research.

Professor Bob Clements The ATSE Crawford Fund 1 Leonard Street, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia Tel: 03 9347 8328 Fax: 03 9347 3224 Email: crawford@mira.net

Bob Clements is the Executive Director of the ATSE Crawford Fund for International Agricultural Research, and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland and a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He began his career as a farmer in the Cowra district (NSW, Australia) before attending the University of New England (Armidale) where he graduated with a degree in Rural Science in 1964. He then joined CSIRO Plant Industry, where he undertook research on plant breeding and on aerial sowing of pasture plants. In 1968, he joined the Agronomy Department at Massey University, New Zealand, where he taught plant breeding and pasture agronomy. He obtained a PhD degree from Massey University in 1971. In 1973 he joined the CSIRO Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures as a plant breeder, working on forage plants. With co-workers, he produced new cultivars of lucerne and Centrosema (a tropical legume genus). He also undertook pioneering research on plant adaptation, and genetic diversity. In 1983 he changed his research field and commenced new work on beef cattle production, including studies on grazing behaviour, leading to new ideas about the sustainability of improved pastures based on twining tropical legumes. He became Chief of the Division in 1988. In 1995 he left CSIRO to become Director of ACIAR (the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research), where he championed the need to deliver benefits from international agricultural research. He became the Executive Director of the Crawford Fund in 2002. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including Fellowships of the Tropical Grasslands Society and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was previously the Chairman of the Continuing Committee of the International Grassland Congress, and is currently the President of the Organising Committee of the International Crop Science Congress.

Mr Brendan Doyle Assistant Director Institute for Rural Futures The University of New England ARMIDALE, NSW 2351 Tel: 02 6773 3077 Fax: 02 6773 3245 Email: bdoyle2@metz.une.edu.au

Brendan Doyle has undertaken applied research and consultancy in fields that include agricultural resource management, salinity in dryland and irrigated landscapes, agricultural extension evaluation, market analysis, sustainable farming practices in Australian agriculture and an annual suite of qualitative and quantitative research for the Australian cotton industry. He has extensive research skills, including survey design, qualitative and quantitative data collection, multivariate statistical analysis and social-network analysis. Prior to joining the University, he had been employed in agribusiness marketing and held positions in management of farming enterprises including two seasons as operations manager of a large irrigated cotton-farming enterprise in the lower Namoi Valley and a season as assistant to the agronomist at Bourke. His family company operated irrigated rice and pasture based farming systems off the Murray river within the Corurgan and Berriquin irrigation schemes. He holds a degree in Agricultural Economics and is currently concluding a Masters in Economics (Marketing and Management) at UNE.

Dr Paul Ferrar PO Box 216 Curtin, ACT 2605 Australia E-mail: pferrar@netspeed.com.au

May Fleming District Agronomist – Barham P.O. Box 25 Moulamein, NSW 2733 Phone (03) 5887 5167 Fax (03) 5887 5022 Email: may.fleming@agric.nsw.gov.au

Dr Elizabeth G. Heij Facilitator CSIRO Sustainability Network 3 Holmes Bldg CSIRO Waite Laboratories PMB 2 Glen Osmond, SA 5064 Tel: (08) 8303 8406 Fax: (08) 8303 8750 Email: elizabeth.heij@csiro.au

Professor Bruce Holloway The ATSE Crawford Fund 1 Leonard Street Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia Tel: 03 93478328 Fax: 03 93473224 Email: hollowab@ozemail.com.au

Professor Bruce Holloway AO FAA FTSE graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1948 and was appointed Plant Pathologist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute. In 1953 he obtained his Ph. D from the California Institute of Technology where he studied Neurospora genetics under Nobel Laureate George Beadle. After appointments at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, in 1968 he became Foundation Professor of Genetics at Monash University, and remained Chairman of the Department of Genetics until he retired at the end of 1993, when was appointed Honorary Professorial Fellow and Professor Emeritus. His research interests have been in the genetics of bacteria with particular reference to micro-organisms used in biotechnology. From 1985 - 2000 he was coordinator of a project funded by ACIAR aimed at identifying new approaches to the control of Bacterial Wilt disease in tropical crops. In 1994 he became Director of Master Classes, The ATSE Crawford Fund. He has also worked with ISNAR in the training of developing country agricultural scientists in research management of agricultural biotechnology.

Mr Neil Inall Neil Inall Pty Ltd PO Box 402 Roseville NSW 2069, Australia Tel: 02 94121361 Fax: 02 94133433 Email: inall@planet.net.au

Neil Inall grew up on a farm in the Hawkesbury Valley of NSW. He has been a jackeroo, station hand, extension worker, broadcaster and company director. He is best known for his work in national rural radio and television programmes with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and commercial networks. In 1985 he was co-founded of a rural communications consultancy known as Cox Inall Communications which is now one of the foremost groups of its type in Australia. In recent times he was Chairman of the NSW Native Vegetation Advisory Council, a member of the Board of NSW Forests, Board member of Rangelands Australia and NSW State Co-Ordinator of Topcrop, the national extension programme of the Grains Research and Development Corporation. Recently Inall helped to form two consultancies ...one known as Rural Enablers and the other IMW Media Services. But he still spends much of his time talking....eg. chairing national forums like one on climate change in late 2003, facilitating Crawford Masterclasses and compering a field day for rice growers. Neil Inall has won awards for his work in agricultural communications. He was voted Man of the Year in Australian agriculture in 1980; was a Fulbright Scholar to the United States in 1989 and won an IBM significant achievement award in 1990 for presenting a series of videos entitled "On Borrowed Time" about sustainable farming systems. He is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Community Management.

Associate Professor Robin S. Jessop School of Rural Science and Natural Resources University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-67732502 Fax: 02-67733238 Email: rjessop@metz.une.edu.au

Originally from England with B.Ag. Sci from University College of North Wales and Ph.D in crop Agronomy from University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, U.K. Arrived in Australia in 1970 and worked as both a district agronomist and research officer with Victorian Agriculture until 1980 specialising in crop nutrition and new crop development work. At this stage also started an interest in determining better ways of establishing research priorities and alternative research funding options. Moved to Agronomy and Soil Science at UNE in 1980 and have retained research interests in new crops (pulse development and release of new triticale lines) and crop nutrition studies. Has operated in both Australia and in Java/Sumatra and has interests in developing international research programs.

Professor Amarjit Kaur School of Economics University of New England Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-67732874 Fax: 02-67733596 Email: akaur@metz.une.edu.au

Amarjit Kaur FASSA is Professor of Economic History at the University of New England and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She was born in Kuala Lumpur and obtained her BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Malaya and her Ph.D from Columbia University in New York. Prior to joining UNE, Professor Kaur taught at the University of Malaya from 1978 to 1990. She held an American Council of Learned Societies/Fulbright Fellowship at the Economics Department, Harvard University, from 1983-4. She is also senior associate member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Professor Kaur’s main research interests are: Economic Development in Southeast Asia and Asia, with a focus on mechanisms of change and commercialisation; the role of institutions; globalisation and integration of regional economies; international trade and development; industrialisation; changing labour relations; women and child workers; and the environmental and social impacts of resource development.

Professor Emeritus John Lovett Lovett Associates Pty Ltd Glen Esk Nanima Road MURRUMBATEMAN NSW 2582 Tel: 02 6227 5050

From September 1994 to December 2003 John Lovett was Managing Director of the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). From its inception on 1 October 1990, the GRDC has grown to become the single largest invetsor in grains research and development in Ausralia, with a budget this year in excess of $A120 000 000. On moving to the GRDC John left an academic career which had included two periods at the University of New England and one - as Professor of Agricultural Science - in the University of Tasmania. He has also worked in universities in Indonesia and Finland. John was made an Emeritus Professor of the Universoty of New England in February 1999. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institue of Agricultural Science and Tecghnology; a Fellow of the Insitute of Biology and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Biology. John has published more than 100 scientific articles, with numerous popular pieces to his credit. For the past few years his column "The Crop Doctor" has been syndicated in more than 70 rural newspapers in Australia. On 1 January he became Chairman of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting, and is also Chairman of Agrifood Awareness Australia Ltd.

Professor Bob Macadam Rural Enablers Pty Ltd Email: r.macadam@uws.edu.au

Em. Professor James R. McWilliam McWilliam Consulting 52 Buderim Avenue Mooloolaba Qld Australia 4557 Tel. 07-5444-0755 Fax. 07-5444 0379 Email:jimmcw@optusnet.com.au

Dr Sue Meek The Gene Technology Regulator Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (MDP 54) PO Box 100 Woden ACT 2606 Free call: 1800 181 030 Fax: 02 6271 4202 E-mail:ogtr@health.gov.au

Professor Ian Metcalfe Asia Centre University of New England Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-67733499 Fax: 02-67732978 Email: imetcalf@metz.une.edu.au

Professor Ian Metcalfe was formerly an Associate Professor in Geology/Earth Sciences and Professor in the Research & International Division at UNE. He is currently Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England. Originally from England, he trained as a geologist at the University of Durham, and then obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds, U.K. His research interests are wide, including the geological evolution and resources of East and Southeast Asia, and social science, labour, gender and environmental issues relating to Asia. He is program Director for the University of New England Research Initiative Environmental and Social Impacts of Resource Development in Asia. Professor Metcalfe was also Australian Science Coordinator for the International Ocean Drilling Program and Secretary of the International Union of Geological Sciences Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy. He has been a member of the Australian Academy of Science Committee for Solid Earth Science. Prior to joining the UNE, Professor Metcalfe was Senior Lecturer at the University of Malaya and National University of Malaysia for thirteen years. He has been Visiting Fellow/Professor at the Universities of Nottingham, Oxford and Cambridge, U.K., Université d’Orléans, France and the Australian National University. Current activities include the development of multi-, cross-, and trans-disciplinary research programs relating to Asia, including international agricultural research.

Alex Nicol 18 Sherwood Ave. Wagga wagga NSW 2650 Tel: 02-69217504 Fax: 02-69217870 Email: acnicol@ozemail.com.au

Professor Roley Piggott School of Economics University of New England Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-677322313 Fax: 02-67733596 Email: rpiggott@metz.une.edu.au

Roley Piggott was formally Professor of Agricultural Economics and Head of the School of Economics and is now Dean, Faculty of Economics, Business and Law at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. In addition to administrative responsibilities, he undertakes teaching and research in the areas of agricultural marketing, price analysis and policy. His international experience includes agricultural economics curriculum development in a number of Indonesian universities, assisting in restructuring of the Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the University of Agriculture-Faisalabad in Pakistan, research on Indonesian food self-sufficiency policy, consultancies on grain marketing and a three-year period as an International Fellow in Food Systems sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. In Australia he has been involved in a number of government inquiries, especially in relation to agricultural marketing arrangements. He has served as President of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Coeditor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Australian Country Representative for the IAAE. Professor Piggott the degrees of Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (UNE 1966), Master of Agricultural Economics (UNE 1970) and Phd (Agricultural Economics, Cornell, 1974) and was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of Agricultural Economists in 2000.

Professor Timothy G. Reeves Director, Timothy G. Reeves and Associates Pty. Ltd. 30 Lansbury Crescent, Highton, VIC 3216, Australia. Email: timothy.g.reeves@bigpond.com Phone: 03 5241 2827 or +61 3 5241 2827 (International dialing) Fax: 03 5241 2820 or +61 3 5241 2820 Mobile: 0439 452 377

Mr Guy Roth Chief Executive Officer Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre PO Box 59 Narrabri NSW 2390 Australia Telephone: 02-6799 1500 Fax: 02-6793 1171 Email: guy.roth@csiro.au WWW: http://www.cotton.crc.org.au/

Guy Roth is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre. The Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre conducts research, education and extension activities for the cotton industry and is a joint venture between 10 public agencies and private companies. Mr Roth holds a Bachelor of Rural Science (Hons) from The University of New England, Master of Applied Science (Resource Management) and is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate at UNE. Mr Roth has worked for 15 years as a private consultant, industry researcher, Ministerial adviser and educator in agriculture and environmental sectors. In 2000, he was responsible for UNE/Australian Cotton CRC winning the Australian Business Higher Education Round Table National Award for collaborative education. His main research interests are in water and irrigation management, soil science, farming systems and environmental issues associated with agriculture.

Professor James Rowe Australian Sheep Industry CRC School of Rural Science and Natural Resources University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-67732225 Fax: 02-67733275 Email: jrowe@metz.une.edu.au

James Rowe has contributed to research and education in the field of animal nutrition and production. From 1978 to 1982 he undertook a number of international consultancies with United Nations agencies on tropical cattle production and with ICI Pharmaceuticals Division in the UK. He joined the Department of Agriculture in Western Australia as Senior Sheep Nutritionist and held that position until 1987 developing effective systems of grain supplementation for extensive grazing systems. He then served as Head of the Cattle Industries Branch of the Department of Agriculture overseeing research and extension of cattle production in both high rainfall and pastoral areas. In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Animal Science at the University of New England and continued research and teaching in the field of animal nutrition and production. Since 2002 he has been Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre.International agriculture consultancies with United Nations Organisations (FAO, UNDP etc) have included the following countries: Mauritius; Ecuador; Nigeria; Brazil; Cyprus;Fiji; Mexico; Maracay; and Austria.

Fiona Simson "Plain Station" BUNDELLA NSW 2343 Ph: 02 6747 6251 Fax: 02 6747 6204 plainstation@bigpond.com

Dr Bill Taylor CSIRO Plant Industry GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia Tel: 02-6246 5223 Fax: 02-6246 5062 Email: bill.taylor@csiro.au

Professor John E Vercoe AM FTSE 7 Ryan Street Zilzie QLD 4710 Australia Phone/Fax 61 7 49387486 Email: jevercoe@ozemail.com.au