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| Day 1 – Tuesday 3 March | |||
| Opening address | |||
| The Hon Tony Burke MP Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
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| Economic overview | |||
| Phillip Glyde ABARE Outlook for Australia's commodity sector |
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| Andrew Burns The World Bank World economy – the way forward |
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| Alan Oster National Australia Bank Outlook for the Australian economy |
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| Farm performance: building sustainable agriculture |
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| Jammie Penm ABARE Australian farm performance and implications for the future |
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| Peter Kenny Expert Social Panel Changing perspectives on dryness |
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| David Brownhill Producer, NSW Planning for success |
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| Wine: opportunities and challenges |
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| Brenda Dyack ABARE Outlook for wine grapes and wine |
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| James Lovell Foster's Group Challenges abroad for Australia wine exporters |
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| Jim Caddy CCW Co-operative Growing grapes in a drier, competitive climate |
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| Delivering R&D effectively | |||
| Glen Weir Department of Primary Industries and Resources SA The national primary industries research, development and extension framework |
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| Keith Perrett Producer, NSW End user perspective |
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| Michael Robinson Land & Water Australia Climate change research strategy for primary industries |
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| Grains: a changing environment |
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| Leanne Lawrance ABARE Outlook for grains |
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| William and Olga Liefert USDA (DVD presentation) Grains production prospects in Russia and Ukraine |
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| Mike Chaseling Emerald Group Coping in the deregulated market |
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| Harvey Glick Monsanto Improving grain production systems |
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| Horticulture: facing the challenges |
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| Chair: John Webster Horticulture Australia |
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| Brent Borrell Centre for International Economics Future focus – horticulture industry facing the challenges to 2020 |
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| Panel discussion members | |||
| Judith Damiani – Citrus Australia | |||
| David de Paoli – Austchilli | |||
| Tony Ford – McCain Foods | |||
| Dairy: milking the market |
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| John Hogan ABARE Outlook for dairy |
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| Tassos Haniotis European Commission Future directions in EU dairy policy and the implications for EU dairy exports |
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| Mike Ginnivan Dairy Australia The future direction and issues for Australia's dairy industry |
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| Water future: supply and reform |
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| Peter Gooday ABARE The economic impacts of reduced water availability |
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| Tom Vanderbyl SunWater The Queensland experience with capacity sharing |
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| Bill Young CSIRO Nature of environmental demands for water |
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| Rob Freeman Murray-Darling Basin Authority Towards a new Basin plan |
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| Agriculture's entry into emissions trading | |||
| Melanie Ford ABARE Agriculture: moving towards emissions trading |
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| Jenny O'Sullivan Producer, Vic Carbon pollution reduction efforts - innovative farm practices |
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| Ross Garnaut University of Melbourne Impacts of climate change and the emissions trading scheme on agriculture |
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| Biosecurity | |||
| Mark Burgman Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis Disease incursion under climate change |
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| Roger Beale Allen Consulting Group Findings and implications of the Review |
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John Crosby |
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| New and emerging industries | |||
| Roslyn Prinsley Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Success factors for new and emerging rural industries |
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| Paul Miller Australian Olive Association Pressing the fresh: Australia's growing olive industry |
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| Grahame Webb Wildlife Management International The emerging Australian crocodile industry |
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| Sibylla Hess-Buschmann Australian Rainforest Products Growing native: Australia's budding native food industry |
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| Day 2 – Wednesday 4 March | |||
| Global trade relationships | |||
| The Hon. Simon Crean MP Minister for Trade Ministerial address |
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| Pascal Lamy World Trade Organization Where to for agriculture and the environment? |
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| Food security and trade | |||
| Ken Ash OECD Outlook for world food prices and food security |
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| TJ Higgins CSIRO Biotechnology in food security |
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| Terry Sheales ABARE Global food security – an Australian perspective |
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| Competition for labour resources | |||
| Denis Hart Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Emerging trends in Australian labour markets |
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| Arthur Blewitt AgriFood Skills Australia Capacity building in Australian agriculture: addressing the challenges |
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| Vivek Tulpulé Rio Tinto Challenges in global mining |
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| Forestry: a carbon locker? | |||
| Helal Ahammad ABARE Opportunities for Australian forestry under the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme |
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| Budy Resosudarmo Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The economics of deforestation in Indonesia |
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| Nick O’Brien New Forests Asset Management How the changing policy environment will affect the Australian forestry industry |
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| Meat: what's at stake? |
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| Sally Fletcher ABARE Outlook for meat |
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| Michael Finucan Meat and Livestock Australia Prospects for live exports |
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| Tony Buckley My Butcher The challenge of the value chain |
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| Wool: demanding times |
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| Caroline Gunning-Trant ABARE Outlook for wool |
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| Stuart McCullough Australian Wool Innovation Marketing and innovation |
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| Michael Jackson International Wool Textile Organisation International markets in the future |
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| Farming in the dry | |||
| Peter Hayman South Australian Research and Development Institute Managing with a variable and changing climate |
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| Ian McClelland Birchip Cropping Group The producer's perspective |
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| Ken Moore Land & Water Australia Social implications |
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| Productivity growth: the answer to challenges? |
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| Don Gunasekera ABARE Drivers of productivity growth in agriculture |
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| Keith Fuglie USDA US productivity growth and an international comparison |
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| Bernard Wonder Productivity Commission Productivity - an economy wide perspective |
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| Improving returns on NRM investment | |||
| Santhi Wicks ABARE Prioritising NRM investments at different scales |
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| David Pannell University of Western Australia Making the most of ‘Caring for our Country’ |
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| Brendan Wintle University of Melbourne Demonstrating return on 'Caring for our Country' |
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| Irrigated agriculture: reduced water availability |
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| Dale Ashton ABARE Performance of irrigation farms in the Murray-Darling Basin |
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| Andrew Chesworth Producer, NSW Managing low water allocations and the role of water trading |
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| Laurie Arthur Producer, NSW Farming options with scarce water |
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National Outlook conference 3-4 March 2009
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