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Robin Schaefer named winner of 2022 David Roget Award for excellence
Mallee Sustainable Farming is proud to announce Loxton, South Australia, farmer Robin Schaefer the 2022 winner of the David Roget Award for Excellence.
Robin was presented with the prestigious award at the recent MSF Mallee Research Update held at the Karoonda Football Clubrooms, by CSIRO Research Scientist and MSF Specialist Director, Dr Therese McBeath.
MSF ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD OF FARMER DIRECTORS
Mallee Sustainable Farming is pleased to announce that the 2021-2022 Board of Directors have now been filled. MSF welcomes Nicole Byrnes from New South Wales who has been appointed as a NSW Farmer Director and Therese McBeath from CSIRO appointed as a Specialist Director.
MSF MET WITH MINISTER FOR AG
MSF met with Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, David Littleproud, and Federal Member for Mallee, Anne Webster this morning.We discussed improved farming systems …
RIVERLAND MALLEE MESONET WORKSHOPS
Pictured (L-R): Warwick Grace, Damon Grace, Mick Faulkner, Mark Stanley, Peter Cousins and Tanja Morgan. We had a fantastic week travelling the SA Riverland and …
Jason Brand named winner of the 2021 David Roget Award for Excellence
Mallee Sustainable Farming is proud to announce Jason Brand, Senior Researcher with Agriculture Victoria, as the 2021 winner of the David Roget award for Excellence. …
NATIONAL AG DAY CELEBRATIONS
https://youtu.be/BHdNczj5SkEWE MALLEE FARMINGHappy National Ag Day! Here’s cheers to our farmers, leaders, advocates, rural communities and people contributing towards Australian Agriculture. THANK YOU for all …
SA Sheep Tech Group
SA Red Meat & Wool Sheep Technology Group Our SA Mallee Sheep Tech group is all about helping our mixed farmers investigate and implement new …
MSF Launches First Virtual Field Day
An Australian-first initiative, which will put virtual 360-degree agriculture extension videos into the palm of farmers’ hands, is being launched in the Mallee this week. …
MSF Quarterly email Updates

Autumn 2021
- A catch up with our NSW Director, Gavin Howley
- Executive Officer update
- Upcoming Events
- New Podcast Episodes

Summer 2021
- Executive Officer Update
- Upcoming Events
- SA & VIC Mallee Seeps project update
- Celebrating National Ag Day 2020
- Feature Sponsor - Grain Growers

Spring 2020
- Spring wrap-up with Ron Hards
- 2020 Field Days
- Improving sheep nutrition through assessment of regional feed based nutrition deficiencies
- VIC - Area wide management of weeds – fleabane trials begin in Sunraysia
- SA - Red Meat & Wool Sheep Technology group
- SA - Mixed Cover crops in the Mallee
- Feature Sponsor - ANZ

Winter 2020
- Chairs Chat with Daniel Linklater
- Update from our Program Manager, Tanja Morgan
- Save the date Field Days
- SA & VIC - Deep ripping project update
- NSW - Sustainable no-till farming systems
- SA - Are you interested in being involved in our SA Mallee Sheep Technology Producer Group?
- SA - What will the Mesonet measure?
- SA - Strategic use of summer crops to reduce the impact of Mallee seeps Demonstration site at Bowhill
- VIC - Decision tree established to determine the best approach to tackling Mallee Seeps Demonstration site at Ouyen