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Day 1 – Tuesday 3 March
 
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Royal Bradman Menzies Nicholls
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9.00 – 9.30am      
Welcome to country    
Ministerial opening address    
       
 
9.45 – 11.00am      
Economic overview      
Chair: Michael Pascoe
EurekaReport.com.au
     
 
   
   
Alan Oster
National Australia Bank
Outlook for the Australian economy
   
 
11.00 – 11.30am
Morning tea
 
 
11.30 – 12.45pm      
Farm performance:
building sustainable agriculture
Wine: opportunities
and challenges
Delivering R&D effectively  
Chair: TBC
Bureau of Meteorology
Chair: Michael Pascoe
EurekaReport.com.au
 
 
 
Peter Kenny
Expert Social Panel
Changing perspectives
on dryness
Jim Caddy
CCW Co-operative
Growing grapes in a drier, competitive climate
Keith Perrett
Producer, NSW
End user perspective
 
 
James Lovell
Fosters Group
Challenges abroad for Australia wine exporters
Michael Robinson
Land & Water Australia
Climate change research
strategy for primary industries
 
 
SESSION SPONSOR – Bureau of Meteorology   SESSION SPONSOR – Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry  
 
12.45 – 2.00pm
Lunch
 
2.00 – 3.30pm
Grains: a changing environment Horticulture: facing
the challenges
Dairy: milking the market  
Chair: Peter Reading
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Chair: John Webster
Horticulture Australia
 
 
TBC
Future focus – horticulture industry facing the challenges to 2020
 
Mike Chaseling
Emerald Group
Coping in the
deregulated market
Brent Borrell
Centre for International Economics
Industry outlook and analysis
Tassos Haniotis
European Commission
Future directions in EU dairy policy and the implications for EU dairy exports
 
 
TBC
Grains production prospects
in Russia and Ukraine
Panel members
Industry Leadership Group
Importance of future focus to the industry
Mike Ginnivan
Dairy Australia
The future direction and issues for Australia's dairy industry
 
 
SESSION SPONSOR – Grains Research & Development Corporation SESSION SPONSOR – Horticulture Australia Limited    
 
 
3.30 – 4.00pm
Afternoon tea
 
4.00 – 5.30pm
Water future: supply and reform Agriculture's entry
into emissions trading
Biosecurity New and emerging industries
Chair: Ken Matthews
National Water Commission
Chair: Martin Parkinson
Department of Climate Change
Chair: Rob Delane
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
 
Roslyn Prinsley
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
Success factors for new and emerging rural industries
Jenny O'Sullivan
Producer, Vic
Carbon pollution reduction efforts - innovative farm practices
Roger Beale
Quarantine and Biosecurity Review
Findings and implications
of the Review
Paul Miller
Australian Olive Association Pressing the fresh: Australia's growing olive industry
 
Bill Young
CSIRO
Nature of environmental demands for water
Ross Garnaut
University of Melbourne
Impacts of climate change
and the emissions trading scheme on agriculture
John Crosby
Quarantine and Exports Advisory Council
Import risks under climate change: future challenges for farmers and policy makers
Grahame Webb
Wildlife Management International
The emerging Australian crocodile industry
 
Rob Freeman
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
Towards a new Basin plan
    Sibylla Hess-Buschmann
Australian Rainforest Products
Growing native: Australia's budding native food industry
 
SESSION SPONSOR – Murray-Darling Basin Authority     SESSION SPONSOR – Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
 
6.30pm for 7.30pm
Conference dinner – National Convention Centre
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Day 2 – Wednesday 4 March
 
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Royal Bradman Menzies Nicholls
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9.00 – 9.30am      
Ministerial address      
       
 
9.45 – 11.00am      
Global trade relationships Competition for
labour resources
Forestry: a carbon locker?  
 
 
Ivan Neville
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Emerging trends in
Australian labour markets
 
 
Pascal Lamy (TBC)
WTO
Where to for the WTO?
Arthur Blewitt
Agri-Food Industry Skills Council
Capacity building in Australian agriculture: addressing the challenges
 
Michel Barnier (TBC)
Minister of Agriculture, France
EU farm policies
Nick O’Brien
New Forests
How the changing policy environment will affect the Australian forestry industry
 
 
    SESSION SPONSOR – Horticulture Australia Limited  
 
11.00 – 11.30am
Morning tea
 
 
11.30 – 12.45pm      
Food security and trade Meat: what's at stake Wool: demanding times Farming in the dry
Chair: Roberta Brazil
Land & Water Australia
 
Ian McClelland
Birchip Cropping Group
The producers' perspective
 
TJ Higgins
CSIRO
Biotechnology in food
security
Robert Langtry
Australian Wool Innovation
Marketing and innovation
Ken Moore
Land & Water Australia
Social implications
Peter McIntosh
CSIRO
Changes to seasonality
 
      SESSION SPONSOR – Land & Water Australia
 
12.45 – 2.00pm
Lunch
 
 
2.00 – 3.30pm      
Productivity growth:
the answer to challenges?
Improving returns on NRM investment Irrigated agriculture: reduced water availability  
Chair: Peter O’Brien
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
Chair: Mary Harwood
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
 
 
 
Bernard Wonder
Productivity Commission
Beyond the farm-gate
Andrew Chesworth
Producer, NSW
Managing low water allocations and the role of water trading
 
 
Keith Fuglie
USDA
US productivity growth and
an international comparison
Brendan Wintle
University of Melbourne
Demonstrating return on 'Caring for our Country'
Laurie Arthur
Producer, NSW
Farming options with scarce water
 
 
SESSION SPONSOR – Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation SESSION SPONSOR – Land & Water Australia SESSION SPONSOR – Land & Water Australia  
 
Conference end
 
National Outlook conference 3-4 March 2009
www.abare.gov.au/outlook