Crop & Connect Workshops
Crop & Connect Annual Workshops
Bringing regional producers together to learn, connect and grow.
Regional Grower Services and VegNET Wide Bay takes Crop & Connect to AgroTrend, delivering a series of practical workshops designed to keep regional producers and their teams informed, connected and up to date with the latest industry insights.
The annual workshop program provides an opportunity to step away from the day-to-day, explore new ideas and gain practical knowledge across a range of topics relevant to modern agribusiness.
But we want to make sure Crop & Connect continues to cover the topics that matter to you.
What would you like to learn about? What challenges are you facing in your business? Is there a topic, technology, compliance issue or industry development you would like us to explore?
Help us shape the next Crop & Connect workshop program. Your feedback and ideas will help us build future sessions around the information, skills and knowledge that can make a practical difference to regional producers and their teams.
Crop & Connect is also an opportunity to invest in your team’s professional development. Bringing different staff members along can help spread knowledge throughout your business, build capability and give team members the confidence to take on new responsibilities — supporting a stronger farming system.
Have a topic in mind? We’d love to hear from you.
Thank You to Our Collaborating Partners
We would like to thank our collaborating partners for their support in bringing this important industry event to our regional producers.
AUSVEG | CQUniversity | Planfarm | Department of Primary Industries Queensland | VegNET
Their knowledge, expertise and contribution helped create a valuable opportunity for producers and industry to connect, share information and build knowledge.
Crop & Connect Workshop | Protect, Plan & Prosper 2026
View the presentations below to explore the insights and information shared at this year’s Crop & Connect workshops.
Fall Armyworm Roadshow
Feedback from participants was positive, with the session providing useful, practical information that growers can apply when monitoring and managing FAW in their crops. A range of supporting resources are also available for growers to explore some of the topics covered during the session and stay up to date with the latest research and development activities. Growers are encouraged to follow the Fall Armyworm eHub for ongoing information, resources and project updates.
RESOURCES
Fall armyworm insecticide resistance surveillance | The Beatsheet
Identify and monitor fall armyworm in maize and sorghum (GRDC guide)
This presentation was delivered by the Department of Primary Industries Queensland in collaboration with BFVG, VegNET RDO, under the VG22006 National Fall Armyworm Innovation System for the Australian vegetable industry project, funded by Hort Innovation using the Vegetable Research and Development Levy and contributions from the Australian Government.
Level Up Hort, 2 Hours of Power
Expect the unexpected. Practical, hands on biosecurity session
What to look out for
Vegetable pests and diseases already in Australia — but not currently detected in Queensland
Product launch and the role of biologicals in global agriculture
Brief historical global overview of pest control in agricultural crops.
- Beginning of agriculture ~10 to 16,000 years ago
- Battling insect pests ever since
- Initial pest control – physical removal, crop rotation
- First pesticide used ~2,500 BCE (=BC) – sulphur for mite & insect control
- ~2,000 years ago Ancient Egyptians extracted compounds from plants for pest control e.g. olive oil
- 307 CE (=AD) – Chinese utilised biological control in citrus orchards
- 1100 CE (=AD) – Chinese utilised soap as an insecticide
Guarding & Fixed Plant Safety
Guarding and Fixed Plant Safety: What Every Farmer Needs to Know
A practical guide for farm owners, managers, and workers — keeping people safe around fixed machinery.
Industry in Action
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