John Angus is a research scientist with CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra. He has extensive experience in nitrogen management and crop physiology, and has been closely involved in analysing the beneficial effects of canola in crop rotations.
Contact address: CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 6246 5095 Fax: (02) 6246 5255 email: john.angus@pi.csiro.au
Denis Ballinger is the Southern Regional Manager with Dovuro Pty. Ltd, the major supplier of canola seeds to farmers in Australia. Previously, he was an agronomist/plant pathologist with Agriculture Victoria at Horsham, where he had a close involvement in the emerging canola production systems of south-eastern Australia.
Contact address: Dovuro Pty Ltd, RMB 3775, Horsham, Victoria 3401
Phone: (03) 5382 0809 Fax: (03) 5382 0896 email: denis@dovuro.com.au
Martin Barbetti is a plant pathologist with Agriculture Western Australia where he manages the Genetic Improvement of Oilseeds Program. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Western Australia and has 25 years experience with diseases of canola. He is the pathology expert on the Australian Crop Accreditation System Oilseeds Committee.
Contact address: Agriculture Western Australia, Locked Bag 4, Bentley Delivery Centre, WA 6983
Phone: (08) 9368 3265 Fax: (08) 9367 2625 email: mbarbetti@agric.wa.gov.au
Bryce Bell is the secretary of the Australian Oilseeds Federation (AOF), and represents the AOF on several industry committees.
Contact address: PO Box 94, Wilberforce, NSW 2756
Phone: (02) 4575 2008 Fax: (02) 4575 2003
Wayne Burton is an oilseeds Brassica breeder with Agriculture Victoria at Horsham. He is actively involved in the development of canola quality B. juncea and B. napus, herbicide tolerant B. napus and specialty oilseeds for Australia.
Contact address: Victorian Institute of Dryland Agriculture, Private Bag 260, Horsham, Victoria 3401
Phone: (03) 5362 2316 Fax: (03) 5362 2317 email: Wayne.Burton@nre.vic.gov.au
Bob Colton is Program Leader (Oils) for New South Wales Agriculture, and is responsible for supervision of both research and advisory activities.
Contact address: NSW Agriculture, Locked Bag 21, Orange, NSW 2800
Phone: (02) 6391 3171 Fax: (02) 6291 3206 email: bob.colton@agric.nsw.gov.au
John Cullen is the program manager responsible for oilseeds with the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC).
Contact address: GRDC, PO Box E6, Kingston, ACT 2604
Phone: (02) 6272 5525 Fax: (02) 6271 6430 email: j.cullen@grdc.com.au
Tony Good is an agronomist with Incitec who has worked on the N and S nutrition of canola, and now works on fertilizer placement strategies and the N nutrition of canola, rice and wheat.
Contact address: Incitec Ltd, PO Box 8, Cowra, NSW 2794
Phone: (02) 6341 1562 Fax: (02) 6341 1781 email: tony.good@incitec.com.au
Allan Green is a research scientist at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra where he leads the oilseed quality modification project. He is involved in research to modify fatty acid composition in linseed, canola and cottonseed, in order to produce improved food oils and novel industrial oils.
Contact address: CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 6246 5154 Fax: (02) 6246 4950 email: allan.green@pi.csiro.au
Peter Hocking is a research scientist at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra. He has worked on the nitrogen and sulphur nutrition of canola, and is currently developing new strategies for fertilizer placement and improved phosphorus uptake by crops.
Contact address: CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 6246 5049 Fax: (02) 6246 5000 email: peter.hocking@pi.csiro.au
Barbara Howlett is a research fellow in the School of Botany at University of Melbourne. She leads a team studying aspects of blackleg disease, including pathogenicity mechanisms and the genetics of field populations of the fungus.
Contact address: School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052
Phone: (03) 9344 5062 Fax: (02) 9347 5460 email: bjh@rubens.its.unimelb.edu.au
John Kirk is a biochemist formerly with CSIRO Plant Industry and now retired. He was the first to discover the low erucic acid trait in Indian mustard, and with Rex Oram, bred the low erucic acid varieties used to found the fledgling cold-pressed mustard oil industry in Australia.
Contact address: Kirk Marine Optics, PO Box 117, Murrumbateman, NSW 2582
Phone: (02) 6227 5877 Fax: (02) 6227 5871 email: jtokirk@clonakilla.com.au
John Kirkegaard is a research scientist with CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra. He leads a research team investigating different aspects of the effect of oilseed Brassica species in crop rotations, including their biofumigant properties.
Contact address: CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 6246 5080 Fax: (02) 6246 5399 email: john.kirkegaard@pi.csiro.au
John Lamont is secretary/treasurer of the Canola Association of Australia. He farms a property on the south western slopes of New South Wales where he has grown canola for over 25 years, and has been a leading figure in developing the canola cropping industry both in New South Wales and Australia.
Contact address: Sedgefield, Old Junee, NSW 2652
Phone: (02) 6924 6461 Fax: (02) 6924 6484 email: canola@wagga.net.au
Rod Mailer is a research scientist in oilseeds chemistry with NSW Agriculture in Wagga Wagga. Together with his research program, he coordinates the quality testing of all interstate trial samples from the National Brassica Improvement Project and is the quality expert on the Australian Crop Accreditation System Oilseeds Committee.
Contact address: Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Private Mail Bag, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650
Phone: (02) 6938 1818 Fax: (02) 6938 1809 email: mailerr@agric.nsw.gov.au
Stephen Marcroft is an agronomist/ plant pathologist with Agriculture Victoria, based at Horsham. His research priorities include both pathology (identification of alternative sources of blackleg resistance, management of the blackleg fungus) and agronomy (the importance of sowing seed quality, adaptation to low rainfall environments).
Contact address: Victorian Institute of Dryland Agriculture, Private Bag 260, Horsham, Victoria 3400
Phone: (03) 5362 2160 Fax: (03) 5362 2317 email: Steve.Marcroft@nre.vic.gov.au
Garry McDonald is Director of the Rutherglen Research Institute. He has considerable expertise in Integrated Pest Management, with a major focus on earth mites.
Contact address: Agriculture Victoria- Rutherglen, RMB 1145, Rutherglen, Victoria 3685
Phone: (02) 6030 4502 Fax: (02) 6030 4505 email: garry.mcdonald@nre.vic.gov.au
Neville Mendham is a senior lecturer in agronomy at the University of Tasmania. He researches and teaches on the interactions between physiology, breeding and agronomy of oilseeds and other crops in Australia and Europe.
Contact address: Dpt Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-54, Hobart, Tasmania 7001
Phone: (03) 62262598 Fax: (03) 6226 2642 email: N.Mendham@utas.edu.au
Melina Miles is an entomologist with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, at Toowoomba. She is developing area-wide management strategies for Helicoverpa spp. She has previously undertaken field research on false wireworms in canola, while employed by Agriculture Victoria.
Contact address: Department of Primary Industries, P.O. Box 102, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350
Phone: (07) 4688 1369 Fax: (07) 4688 1199 email: milesm@prose.dpi.qld.gov.au
Rob Norton is an associate professor in agronomy at the University of Melbourne and is based at Horsham. He has worked on water use and nitrogen nutrition in canola as well as environmental effects on oil quality.
Contact address: Longerenong College, University of Melbourne, RMB 3000, Horsham, Victoria 3401
Phone: (03) 5362 2207 Fax: (03) 5362 2213 email: rnorton@landfood.unimelb.edu.au
Rex Oram is a plant breeder formerly with CSIRO Plant Industry and now continuing his research interests as a post-retirement honorary research fellow. He worked with John Kirk to develop high-yielding, low erucic acid and double low B. juncea and is also the breeder of several cultivars of phalaris, barley and white lupins.
Contact address: CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 6246 5082 Fax: (02) 6246 5399 email: rex.oram@pi.csiro.au
Paul Parker is an agronomist with New South Wales Agriculture based at Young. He has been involved with the development of the canola industry since its introduction into New South Wales, and is the New South Wales Agriculture canola extension specialist.
Contact address: NSW Agriculture, Box 51, Young, NSW 2594
Phone: (02) 6382 1077 Fax: (02) 6382 2228 email: paul.parker@agric.nsw.gov.au
Trent Potter is a research officer with the South Australian Research and Development Institute at Naracoorte and has extensive experience in agronomy and varietal evaluation of oilseeds and cereals. He co-ordinates canola field evaluation in South Australia as well as the interstate canola variety comparisons and is the agronomy expert on the Australian Crop Accreditation System Oilseeds Committee.
Contact address: SARDI, PO Box 618, Naracoorte, South Australia 5271
Phone: (08) 8764 7419 Fax: (08) 8764 7477 email: potter.trent@saugov.sa.gov.au
Michael Robertson is a research scientist with CSIRO Tropical Agriculture and is involved in research on physiology, agronomy and modelling of grain crops, with a special research interest in canola in the subtropics.
Contact address: CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, 306 Carmody Rd, St Lucia, Queensland 4067
Phone: (07) 3214 2305 Fax: (07) 3214 2288 email: Michael.Robertson@tag.csiro.au
Phillip Salisbury is the leader of the Oilseed Products program for Agriculture Victoria and leader of the GRDC National Brassica Improvement Program. He has bred many of the Australian canola varieties, is a senior lecturer in plant breeding at Melbourne University and the breeding expert on the Australian Crop Accreditation System Oilseeds Committee.
Contact address: Institute of Land and Food Resources, University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3052
Phone: (03) 9884 8068 Fax: (03) 9884 8068 email: salisbup@ocean.com.au
Mark Stanley is the canola industry development leader in South Australia with Primary Industries and Resources South Australia and is located at Port Lincoln. He is a development coordinator for TOPCROP, a national field crop extension program.
Contact address: PIRSA Rural Solutions, PO Box 1783, Port Lincoln, South Australia 5606
Phone: (08) 8688 3402 Fax: (08) 8688 3407 email: stanley.mark@saugov.sa.gov.au
Steve Sutherland is a weeds agronomist with New South Wales Agriculture located at Wagga Wagga and involved in the Weed Management Systems Cooperative Research Centre. He has 25 years experience in agricultural extension and his current focus is on herbicide resistance and in particular farmer adoption of integrated weed management.
Contact address: Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Private Mail Bag, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650
Phone: (02) 6938 1955 Fax: (02) 6938 1809 email: steve.sutherland@agric.nsw.gov.au
Graham Walton is an agronomist with Agriculture Western Australia, with considerable experience in oilseed and pulse crops. He also co-ordinates single plant selection work in Western Australia for the National Brassica Improvement Program.
Contact address: Agriculture Western Australia, Locked Bag 4, Bentley Delivery Centre, WA 6983
Phone: (08) 9368 3285 Fax: (08) 9368 2165 email: gwalton@agric.wa.gov.au
Neil Wratten is the canola breeder for New South Wales Agriculture based at Wagga Wagga. He began breeding canola in 1973 and is a co-leader of the National Brassica Improvement Program. He has bred many of the Australian canola varieties.
Contact address: Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Private Mail Bag, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650
Phone: (02) 6938 1849 Fax: (02) 6938 1809 email: neil.wratten@agric.nsw.gov.au
