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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 Mick Keogh,
CEO Australian Farm Institute Mick Keogh grew up on a farm in southern NSW. After obtaining a Bachelors degree in
Wool and Pastoral Science at the University of NSW in 1980, he managed a beef cattle
research station on the NSW North Coast for several years. He was subsequently
employed as a researcher at the University of NSW, where he completed his Masters
degree in 1984.
Over the next eight years he was employed as an agribusiness consultant, participating in
a wide range of industry and government funded consultancy projects, often as the lead
researcher.
In 1992 he joined the NSW Farmers’ Association, and was subsequently appointed
General Manager, Policy. In that position, he was closely involved in a wide range of
issues impacting on the farm sector, at both state and national levels. He also authored a
wide variety of publications on farm-sector issues.
In late 2003, he was appointed Executive Director of the Australian Farm Institute, a
newly-established, independent policy research institute that has been established to
conduct research into strategic policy issues of importance to Australian farmers.Appearing: Day Two - Wednesday 25 November 2009 09.00 Opening remarks from the ChairCEO,
Australian Farm Institute 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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