Annual Symposia
Symposia are held annually. This year’s symposium took place in the form of a webinar on Monday and Tuesday, 2 & 3 November 2020.
2020 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
Theme: Maximising RV Yield
1. Opening: Dr Carolyn Baker (SASRI, Director)
2. Welcome: Dr Rianto van Antwerpen View PDF
3. Deterioration in Cane Quality and Milling Performance in the South African Sugar Industry from 2007 to 2016 (Tim Murray) View PDF
4. How UCL handled their Big Midlands Crop (Rolfe Lutge) View PDF
5. Harvesting Planning and Practices To Maximise Recoverable Sucrose (Don McCulloch) View PDF
5. Varieties, Ripeners and Climate Trends (Kerry Redshaw) View PDF
6. AGM: Rianto van Antwerpen View PDF
2019 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
Theme: Conservation Agriculture
1. Opening: Dr Carolyn Baker (SASRI, Director)
2. Conservation Agriculture – an introduction: Rowan Stranack (SASRI, Head: Extension & Biosecurity) View PDF
3. Conservation Agriculture legislation in SA: Paul Botha (SASRI, Extension – Eston) View PDF
4. Surface water control with contour structures – using the CoSDT calculator in its design (Guest speaker: Professor, Jeff Smithers, UKZN) View PDF
5. Regenerative Agriculture in sugarcane: Making a start: (Guest speaker: Deon Schröder, Sugarcane Producer – Dalton) View PDF
6. Status of Conservation Agriculture in rural areas (Guest speaker: Lehman Lindeque, United Nations Development Programme) View PDF
7. Should soil conservation be on your balance sheet? (Guest speaker: Dr Philip Theunissen, (Economist & Farmer)
Unfortunately Dr Theunissen had to withdraw from the symposium but sent the following two articles which should be of interest:
Should soil conservation be on your balance sheet? View PDF
Does farm land have a scrap value? View PDF
8. SASIAA AGM View PDF
