THE SOUTH Australian No-Till Farmers Association has been successful in gaining funding from State Natural Resource Management boards to send farmers to its Viterra 15th annual SANTFA conference.
The association has secured 10 places for farmers from the Eyre Peninsula, 10 from the SA Murray-Darling Basin region, six from the South East, and four from the Adelaide Hills.
The organisation is also looking to secure funding for farmers from the Mid North and Yorke Peninsula areas.
The annual conference always attracts hundreds of farmers from across the State, with its line-up of cutting-edge farmers and consultants.
The 2013 conference will feature Canadian keynote speaker Steve Larocque, an independent crop adviser at Three Hills, Alberta.
He owns consultancy firm Beyond Agronomy and manages more than 12,000 hectares of cropland.
Mr Larocque publishes Beyond Agronomy News, a weekly crop production and grain-market newsletter with his wife Vanessa.
He is also a first-generation graingrower and runs a no-till, controlled-traffic farming and inter-row seeding system sowing canola, wheat, barley and peas in rotation. He was the 2007 Canadian Nuffield scholar, through which he studied controlled-traffic farming.
