Well the first 4 speakers are in the history books and we have had an excellent start!
The Honourable Preston Manning opened the conference up with an excellent talk on the tools of democracy and how individuals can use the democratic tools to help motiviate change.
Brian McConkey gave an excellent talk on how markets and end users are pushing the environmental standards a lot of us are seeing in the agriculture industry.
Wendy Holm looked at how policy is shaped in the industry and looked at how sustainable some things are and are not.
After an excellent Lunch Art Froehlich gave an outstanding presentation on global markets and how everything really works. I would recommend that if you ever get a chance to listen to Art give a talk (from what I understand is not very often) or get a chance to pick his brain, DO IT! He is very insightful and knowledgable.
So far the underlying theme of the conference so far is partnerships and co-operations. This is something that we all in the agriculture industry need to start looking at ways to make strategic partnerships that move our own interests forward but the interests of the entire industry forward
More to come later.....(we also have some excellent speaker interviews we will be posting online in the coming days too)
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