The 2019 Rural Focus Symposium will be held on the 25th July at UNE.
This year’s theme is "Family or Corporate Farming - Learning from each other”
“One day I’ll be returning to run the family farm. I’m worried are they sustainable?
How can we remain profitable? Do we have to get bigger to survive?”
How is farming changing?
What are the key measures used by successful operators?
How can you collaborate to grow and remain competitive?
Speakers for our 2019 Symposium include:
Professor Derek Baker, UNE Business School
David Sackett, CEO, Growth Farms Australia
Jock Whittle, CEO, Paraway Pastoral Co.
David Brownhill, Merrilong Pastoral/AMPS Agribusiness
Charles Coventry, Ag-Edge
Simon Fritsch, Agri-Path
Sam Ditchfield, Ebor Beef
Andrew Roberts, The Farm Owners Academy
Dr Lou Conway, Director, UNE SMART Region Incubator
• Are our Family farm models profitable, competitive, sustainable? • Are our Corporate farmers really the big bad guys some people make out? • How are leading family farmers measuring their business and what are they doing to remain competitive and ease the pressure?
Let’s learn from each other; Don’t farm alone; Benchmark to the best • Best practice examples • Lessons from Family for Corporate farms • Lessons from Corporate for Family farms
Open to and suitable for students, researchers, academics, producers, wholesalers, industry suppliers, and investors.
Join a Q&A with some leading representatives in the Agricultural space. What are the issues they are confronted with and how are they dealing with them?
What are the latest management techniques these leading family and corporate farmers are using?
Come and learn from others’ experience. Rural Focus will help you build your network with current leaders, other industry organisations and our future leaders..
Early bird tickets are available now for $75.00 but get in fast as these are sure to go out the door very quickly! For more information regarding event booking, detailed information on speakers as well as a schedule of events open the program below.
The Rural Focus Dinner and Symposium is an initiative of the Robb College Foundation.