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Autumn (Fall) in America
This year has seen more international travel – for work and pleasure! In the last blog, I reported on my last trip to Chile providing extension training - a great experience. I have also had further opportunity to visit Hamilton in New Zealand with my DairyNZ monitoring and evaluation work – always a pleasure!
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Back to Chile
I really didn’t expect to get back to Chile – or at least not so soon! As you will see from an earlier blog, I travelled there to work with the dairy industry on the subject of “extension” in 2010. I had thought it was a nice ‘one-off’ opportunity and enjoyed it on that basis. Then I found myself back – this time running a more formal extension training course that I developed “ Camino a la adopcion – Extension de formacion” - or “Pathway to Adoption – Extension training”. Of course, I didn’t do the translation! – that was organised by the Consorcio Lechero who brought me over. This organisation plays a coordinating role across the value chain within the dairy industry – and saw a need for improved extension approaches if Chile was to make the gains they wanted in the dairy industry.
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Blog Update - The Start of 2011
Well the Queensland and Victorian Floods have dominated the last month – and now a cyclone is heading towards my original home town – Ayr! Quite a start to the year! I feel for those affected directly and indirectly. And those landholders who have battled drought and have now lost crops, pastures, stock and infrastructure to floods.
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Survey Workshops
One of the factors that has prompted us to launch our specialised rural survey service has been the survey workshops that I developed with Kerry Bell – a whiz with numbers and statistics! Kerry and I had been co-running the University of Queensland’s ‘Evaluation of Projects and Programs’ Masters course for a number of years.
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