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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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 Mr Greg Brown,
President Cattle Council of Australia Greg Brown (pictured above) is a beef cattle producer from Mt Garnet in North Queensland. Greg and his wife fatten their predominantly Brahman herd on their property, “Meadowbank”.
Born and bred in northern cattle country, Greg is a long time participator in the beef industry. He was a founding member of Cattlemans Union of Australia formed in 1976 and following, a member of Agforce, later formed in 1998. In addition, he was a valued member of Northern Australia Beef Research Centre (NBRAC) for seven years prior to his election as President of Agforce cattle in 2006.
For the past four years, Greg has candidly represented beef producers both in Queensland and Nationally on a number of challenging issues that continue to impact our industry. Some of these include drought policy, climate change and increasing on-farm input costs.
Greg’s election as President of the Cattle Council in November 2008 will continue his involvement of over 30 years in agri-politics. His focus now is representing the broad interests of cattle producers from all States and Territories across Australia, in the development of useful and robust policy that will ensure the future profitability of our industry.
Appearing: Day Two - Wednesday 25 November 2009 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,
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