Registrations close next Friday for the Tasmanian Farmers & Graziers Association Conference, Major Dinner & Field Trip! Registrations close soon for the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association’s annual policy forum in Launceston in July at which the state’s farmers will show that while all around them may be dark and brooding, they look to the future with enormous optimism. For the TFGA believes that, when all else may be in disarray, agriculture represents Tasmania’s long-term future. Tasmania has the best growing climate in the nation, the most rainfall run-off, modern irrigation schemes coming on line and farmers who have the glass half full attitude. The policy forum will be held at Country Club Tasmania, Launceston on July 11. Building trust is the theme of the forum, always a highlight of the farming calendar. There will be a dinner featuring the Wolfe Brothers at night and a field trip to the north west coast the following day. Registrations close on June 28. Speakers at the forum include: • Matt Linnegar, chief executive of the National Farmers’ Federation • Charlie Arnot, chief executive of the US Center for Food Integrity, a non-profit organisation dedicated to building consumer trust and confidence in today’s food systems • Jeanine Sciacca is an associate director responsible for business development in the retail industry sector of Pacific Nielsen • Matt Levey is head of head of campaigns for the consumer association, CHOICE • Tim Longhurst, a “trendspotter and futurist”. Premier Lara Giddings will open the forum. “We have gathered together some of the brightest minds available in the field of marketing and communications to help us develop and build trust with our community, with our potential supporters and with our markets,” TFGA chief executive Jan Davis said today. The July 12 field trip goes to pyrethrum producer Botanical Resources Australia at Ulverstone, which is responsible for 60 per cent of the world’s production of the botanical insecticide. Then it’s on to the Hellyers Road Distillery at Burnie, Australia’s largest distiller of single malt whisky, and then Ian and Gloria Benson’s Forest Hill Farm at Latrobe. The Bensons grow and pack organic vegetables for retailers throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. The field trip finishes at Gavin Clark’s property at Deloraine. Clark is undertaking various trials on potatoes and different crop varieties. For more information, click here: tfga.au/in-the-news/events/
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:40:31 +0000