CWFS organised an event on Wednesday 4th March to celebrate Women’s Week 2020. The event was held at the CWFS Fettell Centre Condobolin, Central West NSW and celebrated “Women of the West”. The celebration attracted 40 women to hear wonderful presenters speak about financial agency and security, health and wellbeing as well as encouraging involvement...
The CWFS 2019 Women and Youth in Agriculture Conference – ‘Resilience and Renewal’ was held on Wednesday 27 March 2019 at the Condobolin Agricultural Research Station to a record crowd of 160 people. With perfect autumn weather, the crowd enjoyed a marquee on the lawn of the Ag Station; with a high number of industry...
CWFS Project Manager, Diana Fear, recently attended the National Rural Women’s Coalition Rural Women’s Muster in Canberra (11-14 Feb 2018) on the theme of Strengthening Community through women’s leadership. As one of 14 women chosen from over 100 candidates Australia-wide, Diana participated in leadership development over three intensive days. Participants shared methods, tools and leadership...
On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 a combined Condobolin and Forbes AgMarketing group visited Orange NSW for a site visit in order to better understand product ‘branding’ and how to increase the marketability of our commodities. First on the day’s itinerary was morning tea at Fiona Schofield’s home where she talked to us about the highly...
CWFS AgMarketing meetings 2 & 3 November 2017 Condobolin Another meeting of the Condobolin CWFS AgMarketing Project was held on Thursday, 2 November with rural women coming together to catch up and discuss the upcoming harvest over an informal lunch at the Railway Hotel, Condobolin. This meeting provided a great opportunity for the group to...
The official launch of the CWFS AgMarketing Project was held on Wednesday, 30 August 2017 with 16 women from the Central West region of NSW attending a workshop at the Condobolin Ag Station. The CWFS AgMarketing Project aims to upskill and improve knowledge of local producers and growers in the sphere of agricultural commodity marketing...
The marketing of agricultural commodities is an area where significant value can be extracted and risk mitigation exercised. A lack of expertise and confidence in marketing often results in missed opportunities and unrealised potential. While there is an enormous amount of market information available and a proliferation of consultants, it is often difficult to know what is really driving the market and what impact this will have on the farming enterprise. Reflecting the nature of the family...
Pathways To Change The CWFS Women and Youth in Agriculture ‘Pathways to Change’ Conference was held on Friday, 21 October 2016 at the Condobolin Ag Station and proved a fabulous day for networking, catching up with friends, and gaining valuable information. With stunning weather and an array of high calibre speakers, the Conference attracted over...
A great day was spent learning about soils and soil health with Sarah Curry from Majors Mulch at Weethalle Public School on Friday, 20 May 2016 under the CWFS Women & Youth Project. The first workshop was designed to educate kids about basic soil types and involved a fun ‘hands on’ demonstration which,...
