Media release no.
Ms Vistisen is part of a team of qualified staff that work together to provide seed testing services, certification of crops, disease analysis on horticultural and broadacre plants, as well as identifying weeds and insects. She said she found her job very rewarding because people were dependant on her to provide quality, timely, valuable information. The results can help to sell seed, determine sowing rates, disease management strategies and regimes. Her work with the team also involves identifying diseased material, weeds and insects so that pests or disease threats can identified and dealt with quickly, before they damage agriculture or the environment. It will include displays from both the public and private sector, tours of the animal laboratories and speakers from various sectors.