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Why shoud I attend - what will I learn?
The 2009 harvest has been another challenging season with variable weather, yields, prices and inflated costs. The pressure on managers and staff time also seems more intense. Farmers today must reverse thes pressures. The conference will try to address these issues by:
- Understanding more about the global grain market and how to manage grain price volatility
- Hearing how Joint Venture farmers have increased efficiency and reduced costs over the last three years with live case studies
- Listening to how technology can be used to increase efficiency, reduce costs and driver stress
- Knowing how to protect your business against interst rate rises and the increase in banking regulations.
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- 9.15am: Registration and coffee
- 9.45am: Welcome by Charles Matts - JVFG Chairman
- 9.50am: Conference Chairman - opening remarks
Guy Smith - Farmer and agricutural journalist
- 10.00am: Keynote address - "Solutions for a dangerous world" Richard Bedlam - Chairman of Openfield
- 10.30am: Cashflows in taxing times
Martin Law from Hardcastle Burton accountants will look at the impact of tax on farm cashflows and review benchmarking across 25 farming businesses.
- 11.00am: Coffee
- 11.30am: Joint Venture Farming Group 2009 results
Jamie Gwatkin - Rural Business Consultant
- 12.00pm: "Cost control in a volatile marketplace"
Ben Makowiecki, Agricultural Banking Manager. HSBC Agriculture
- 12.30pm: Lunch
- 1.30pm: "Precision farming - past experience and future thoughts" Simon Parrington - Commercial Director of Soyl Ltd
- 2.00pm: "The rationalisation train - cost control at the Co-op"
Nick Padwick, Farm Manager Co-operative Farms Stoughton Estate and Farmers Weekly Farmer of the Year
- 2.30pm: Questions to the panel
How to work smarter not just harder
- 3.00pm: Chairman's closing remarks
- 3.10pm: Close and tea.
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