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The mega trends shaping consumer behaviour and agriculture: new expectations, new challenges, meeting new demans, Phil Ruthven, Executive Chairman, IBIS Group
Session One: Climate change: how real and what solutions
Implications of climate change for agriculture and what will be the cost and how can the grains industry adapt to climate change scenarios, Dr Grant Daggard, Dean of Sciences, University of Southern Queensland
Climate Change from a financiers perspective, Rachel O’Neill Director Carbon Solutions Group, NAB
Developing a farmers’ response: action/solutions to assist farming businesses, Ian McCelland, Chairman, Birchip Cropping Group
Session Two: Biotechnology: Will Australia participate?
Genetic time travel - harnessing the ancient past to secure our long-term food future, Dr Ken Street, Senior Scientist, Genetic Resource Unit, ICARDA
The role of and challenges of biotechnology in the global grains market, Paul Green, International Grain Trade Coalition, USA
Delivering market choice with GM canola; Angus McLaren, Project Spokesperson
Session Three: Marketing structure and directions in the grains industry
A new direction for the wheat industry, Geoff Nalder, Chairman, Wheat Export Marketing Alliance <NO PRESENTATION>
Changes in export wheat marketing, Peter Woods, Acting CEO Wheat Export Authority
Outlook for barley and opportunities for the Australian industry post deregulation, Alick Osborne, Commercial Manager, Louis Dreyfus
An informed industry - what needs to change?, Ron Storey, Managing Director, Australian Crop Forecasters Pty Ltd
Session Four: Australian Grains – the next era
Keeping an Australian company competitive in a changing Industry, Doug Rathbone, CEO, NuFarm Ltd
The Australian grain freight market and opportunities for “tradable freight”, Adrian Browne, Director, Strategic Design and Development
A global futures market for pulses, David Rutledge, CEO, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre
Session Five: Trade: Opportunities and Challenges
Australian trade opportunities – focus on grains, oilseeds and pulses, Robert Sutton, National Manager Agribusiness and Consumer, Austrade
Opportunities and challenges for the grains industry in the Asian market, Bruce Blakeman, Public Affairs Director - Asia Cargill
Are non-tariff trade barriers imposing increased costs on industry and barriers to trade?, Paul Morris, Executive Manager, Technical Market Access, DAFF
Session Six: Biosecurity
Strategic research directions for National Plant Biosecurity, Professor John Lovett, Chairman CRC for National Plant Biosecurity
Session Seven: Biofuels
Biofuels, thecompetition between fuel, feed and fuel - a US perspective, Paul Green, International Trade Consultant, North American Milling Association
The future of biofuels and implications for the agricultural sector, Robert Green, General Manager Commercial, Cargill Australia
The future for bioenergy and biobased products in Australia, Dr Deborah O'Connell, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
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