The Haifa Fertilizer seminar is now only a week away! To secure your position at this event, please register with Tony Bundock either via e mail or landline.
This Blog follows the developments, and training opportunities that are available at Chisholm Institute of TAFE's award winning National Precision Growing Centre. The facility is the only one of its kind in Australia and is designed to facilitate training for the greenhouse crop industry on a Local, Regional, National and International level. The Glasshouse is based on the Cranbourne Campus of Chisholm Institute of TAFE in Victoria. Additional link sites are listed below.
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Friday, 23 May 2014
Greenhouse Technician's Course
This week we have been hosting 11 students from industry as they participated in our Greenhouse Technician's Course.
The participants were from South Australia, Regional and Metropolitan Victoria, and undertook the four and a half day course at the Cranbourne Campus.
The course itself is aligned to the Diploma Level National Competency - Manage a Controlled Growing Environment - and saw all of the students studying the factors that have to be considered when controlling a growing environment, and then utilizing the Priva Integro / Connext system to both monitor and implement changing climatic conditions.
Exploring the Priva system.......
'The course itself is limited to 11 participants so that every student has their own computer with the Priva Integro/Connext system to work with' said course co-ordinator, Tony Bundock. The hands on approach on the computer as well as access to the live cropping area makes for a great learning environment for the students' said Tony.
As well as the on site theoretical and practical activities, the participants also visited the Flavorite Tomato farm as well as observing the large range of water treatment equipment that Chisholm has within its Water Training Centre.
The course itself covers a wide range of topics and the next course is scheduled for Monday the 28th of July. Further details of our next course are posted below.
Monday, 12 May 2014
Perth Haifa Seminar
Last week we ran the first of our interstate seminars in Perth, WA. The event was kindly hosted by Trandos Hydroponics who provided a first class venue for the event.
The seminar was presented by Shaul Gilan and Peter Anderson of Haifa, and the target audiance was made up of a combination of growers and fertiliser suppliers.
The seminar looked at providing the participants with an overview of the various elements used in soluble fertilizer recipes, and how to calculate values for the various elements.
Once everyone had grasped the mathematics - well we all did in the end!, then there was a demonstration of the applicable software to ease such calculations.
The seminar also provided a great opportunity for the participants to interact with the presenters and gain more detailed information that could be translated back to their home locations.
Our next seminar is due to be delivered in Coffs Harbour on Tuesday the 3rd of June - to secure your plaxce at this event, please e mail Tony Bundock via:- tony.bundock@chisholm.eduu.au
Chisholm Staff member Tony Bundock and some of the course participants
Haifa Staff member Shaul Gilan and 'The men in black' from Mirco Fertilizers!
Haifa Staff member Peter Anderson and course participants
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