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Mike Guerin
Managing Director
Elders Rural Services
Robert Setter
Director – General
QLD Department of Primary
Industries and Fisheries
Gerald Leach
Chair Climate Change
Working Group
National Farmers Federation
Justin Smirk
Senior Agribusiness Economist
Westpac Banking Corporation
Allister Watson
General Manager, Meat
Coles
 Lawrence Arthur
Commissioner
National Water Commission
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Day Two - Wednesday 25 November 2009Day Two - Wednesday 25 November 2009
08.50 Registration and welcome coffee 09.00 Opening remarks from the Chair
CEO, Australian Farm Institute
09.10 Australian Agriculture and climate change: Indentifying solutions for sustainable growth and cost effective business practice
- Agriculture and the CPRS
- Evaluating different solutions for overcoming climate change while protecting farming interests
- Accuracy and cost effectiveness in measuring agriculture emissions: the challenge of establishing credibility amongst farming communities
- Educational outreach: how farming producers can take ownership by assuming climate change initiatives
Chair Climate Change Working Group, National Farmers Federation
09.50 Panel - Agriculture and its place in the Carbon Production Reduction Scheme (CPRS)
- Understanding the criteria that will determine sector participation decision in 2013
- The $130 million Australia’s Farming Future initiative
- Modelling the financial impact from ETS inclusion - Carbon price projections upon commencement of full market trading
- Managing increased costs and mitigating trade exposure – aligning international emissions trading frameworks with Australia
- Understanding the marginal costs of abatement
- Farm reforestation and carbon geo-sequestration opportunities
Shadow Secretary, Department of Climate Change President, Cattle Council of Australia Vice-President, Sheep Meat Council CEO, Australian Farm Institute Manager Environment, Sustainability & Climate Change, Meat & Livestock Australia Mr Matthew Cawood, Science & Environment group writer, Fairfax/Rural Press
11.10 QLD Agricultural Outlook: Building an economically and environmentally sustainable agricultural sector through market growth and adoption to change
- Growing Queensland’s $ 11 billion dollar agribusiness sector
- Increasing the flow of private and institutional investment into the food and agribusiness sector
- Export markets: The QLD Governments Global Markets Initiative - Trade and export priorities: targeting Asia & the Middle East
- Agricultural infrastructure initiatives
- The QLD Biosecurity strategy – building a world class biosecurity system
- Water management issues - Maximising water efficiencies through adoption of sustainable alternatives
- Climate change: working towards a smooth adoption through the Queensland Rural Adjustment Authority
Director General, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
11.50 Acquisition due diligence: Minimise your risk
- Investment Structuring & Fund Raising
- Asset Sourcing & Transactions
- Farm Operations
- Exit
Co Head, Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management
13.30 Optimising Carbon in the Australian Landscape- Strategies to remove carbon from the atmosphere: storage in vegetation & soilsThe potential of a multi billion dollar terrestrial carbon market for the agricultural sectorAddressing the lack of policy and institutional structures
Mr Peter Cosier, Executive Director and Founding Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
14.10 Water efficient agricultural practices and alternative methods of water access
- Irrigation & Dry land farming – a move towards a sustainable future?
- Evaluating the various sources of water generation – how environmentally sustainable are desalination plants?
- Re-use and re-cycling
- Technology developments in demand management: government spending on water infrastructure
- Government buybacks - is there a better way?
- Rural water pipeline infrastructure: mitigating water loss
CEO, National Irrigators Council
14.50 Innovations in Biotechnology
- New developments that transform the value of farm produce
- Partnerships in the international bio-economy: Facilitating an inflow of new agriculture biotechnology techniques, products and services
Director - Food Future Flagship, CSIRO
15.20 Leveraging Australian biotechnology developments: increasing agricultural efficiency and our nation’s competitive position
- Biotechnology: a means of reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint?
- Biotech regulation:
- Optimising the GM crop regulatory framewor
- Should GM and non-GM products be segregated?
15.40 Closing remarks from the Chair and close of Day Two |
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