SIDE 2009 - ResilientSIDE

22-24 June 2009
Lincoln University, Canterbury

With our rapidly changing market, the South Island Dairy Industry must face new and unexpected challenges everyday. In 2009, ResilientSIDE offers four main themes;

• Cows and Grass
• Technical/Science
• People and Human Resourses
• Financial

All areas that we all need to be aware of as we tackle the coming years. The importance of ensuring your farm and business are resilient and can withstand all of the challenges you face now and in the future will be helped by attending SIDE 09 with it's theme of Resilience.

To read the ResilientSIDE programme outline click here

Click here to download the full ResilientSIDE programme and workshop details

To register for SIDE 2009 - ResilientSIDE - please download the registration form here

For accommodation at Lincoln University - $59 per night per person in single rooms in the Student Halls
(includes breakfast) please email Pamela here please include your arrival and departure dates.  Please include this amount with your SIDE registration payment.

The Exhibitor's Hall floor plan download here

2009 EVENTS

TopSIDE and WestSIDE

Bringing a taste of SIDE to Nelson and the West Coast

TopSIDE - 28 April 2009, 12.30 - 5.30pm

• followed by Happy Hour, then dinner.
• Moutere Hills Community Centre, Upper Moutere, Nelson.

WestSIDE - 29 April 2009, 12.30 - 5.30pm

• followed by Happy Hour, then dinner
• Shanytown, West Coast

TopSIDE and WestSIDE offer the following programme from GlobalSIDE 2008;

• Profitable low imput systems, separating myth from magic - John Roche
• More staff, more profit - Richard Kyte
• Collection, analysis and use of information on farm - Corrigan Sowman
• Milking machines mastitis, sorting fact from fiction - John Howie

SIDE Research Funding

Please download the application for SIDE Research funding

Applications must be submitted by 1st February or 1st September.