AGIC 2015 - Australia's changing role in the global grain industry
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GRDC Growers Day
- Welcome: Richard Clark, Chair, GRDC
- Opening Address: Senator Bridget McKenzie, The Nationals Senator for Victoria
Session 1: Grain markets and outlook
- Emily French, Founder, ConsiliAgra:
Implications for Australian grain producer - Ron Storey, Advisor, NZX-Profarmer: What does this mean for Australian growers in 2015/16?
Session 2: Maximising profitability
- Jorge Karl President Agraria: Grower perspective from Brazil
- Cameron Weeks, Farm Management Consultant, Planfarm: Benchmarking grain growing businesses - what the top businesses do differently
- Jules Dixon, Executive Manager, AMPS Research: Maximising profit through innovation
Launch of Growing Australian Grain
- Safely managing risks with crop inputs and grain on farm
Session 3: Managing risk: Connecting grower practices and market access
- Gerard McMullen, McMullen Consulting & Ian Reichstein, Director - National Residue Survey, Department of Agriculture: Maintaining market access - keeping our grain clean (Case study Scope barley)
- Tony Russell, Executive Manager, Grains Industry Market Access Forum (GIMAF): Managing market access challenges
Session 4: Managing market risk
- Leo Delahunty, Counter party risk management - a producers perspective Partner, Templemore Partners:
- Nathan Cattle, General Manager, NZX Australia (Profarmer): Tonnes to Dollars: Tools for managing price and marketing risk faced by growers,
- Geoff Honey, CEO, Grain Trade Australia: Making sense of contracts
Session 5: Global R&D: where does Australia's grains industry fit?
- Andrew Weidemann, Chair, Grain Producers Australia: Setting the scene
- John Harvey, Managing Director, Grains Research and Development Corporation: Australian grain production in a global context
- Dr Siang Hee Tan, Executive Director, CropLife Asia: Global grains R&D - opportunities for Australian growers
- Dr Steve Jefferies, CEO, Australian Grain Technologies: Australian grains R&D -potential for yield/quality improvements
Session 6: Our Future - perspectives on the grain industry's future direction & opportunities
- Simon Talbot, CEO, NFF
- Sean Barker, Global Head of Barley, GrainCorp Limited
- Closing comments: Richard Clark Chair GRDC
AGIC Tuesday 28th July
- Welcome: Peter Reading, Chair, Grain Trade Australia
- Opening Address: Senator Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Trade
Session 1: Grain markets and outlook
- Emily French Founder, ConsiliAgra: Grain markets and outlook: Asia at the centre of the world
- Graham Hodges, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Session 3: CEO Perspective - what role will Australia play in Asia?
- Mark Palmquist, CEO, GrainCorp
- Greg Harvey, Managing Director and Chief Executive, Interflour Holdings
Launch of Medical Research and Rural Health Garvan Report 2015
- Andrew Giles, CEO, Garvan Research Foundati
- Facilitator: Michael Rowland, Host, ABC News Breakfast
- Dr Andy Crane, CEO, CBH Group
- Yasushi Takahashi, Chairman and CEO, Mitsui & Co. (Australia) Ltd
- Peter Roberts, Assistant Secretary, North Asia Goods, Free Trade Agreement Division, DFAT
Session 5: Country perspectives - Canada
- Ian White President and Chief Executive Officer CWB: Developments in the Canadian grain industry post wheat and barley deregulation
AGIC Wednesday 29th July
Session 6 Part I: Marketing Australian pulses - breaking barriers
- Georgie Aley, CEO, Grains & Legumes Nutrition Council: Shifting consumer perceptions of pulses
- Peter Wilson, CEO, Australia Milling Group: Global investment driving growth in the pulse industry
Session 6 Part II: Marketing Australian grains: innovation
- Dr Andre Teixeira, Professor of Innovation, Lorange Institute of Business, Switzerland: Innovation to meet changing consumer demands
Session 7: Global supply chains - how competitive is Australia
- Alex Kyriakoulis Partner, Holman Fenwick Willan LLP: Global port developments and lessons for Australia
- Angus Wettenhall, Broker, Allied Grain: Drivers of the future shape of Australia's export grain supply chains
- Tim Henry, Managing Director, ADM Australia & Vice President, Australian Grain Exporters Association: Tools to reduce costs at port - AGEA Vessel Protocol
Session 8: Australian grains: Focus on maize
- Liz Mann Chief Executive Officer Maize Australia: The maize industry in Australia, production and opportunities
- Dr Steve Little, Principal Consultant, Capacity+, Ag Consulting: Value of maize fed to dairy cows
Session 9: Meeting global demand - the role for technology
- Dr Siang Hee Tan, Executive Director, CropLife Asia: Meeting global demand - technology & consumer developments
Session 10: Country perspectives: South America
- Jorge Karl, President, Agraria: “Coop Agraria Agroindustrial" case study and the role of cooperatives in the Brazilian grain and oilseeds market
- Ray Lee, Director, Portside Solutions: Case study - An Argentinean revolution in the grain supply chain
- Hon Joel Fitzgibbon, Shadow Minister for Agriculture
- Nick Goddard, Executive Director, Australian Oilseeds Federation