Outlook 2021 - Program and presentations

OUTLOOK 2021 ~ Growing Australian agriculture in an uncertain world
Opening address The Hon David Littleproud MP Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management

TUESDAY 2 MARCH 2021
10.00am – 11.00am	1.30pm – 2.30pm	3.00pm – 4.00pm
Global and national context	Agriculture in focus	Live panel: Improving water market outcomes in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
CHAIR: Nikolai Beilharz, ABC	CHAIR: TBC	CHAIR: TBC
Michael Every Rabobank	Jared Greenville ABARES ABARES agricultural outlook	David Galeano ABARES
Sarah Hunter BIS Oxford Economics Australia	Luke Chandler John Deere Ltd Australia and New Zealand	Mick Keogh ACCC
Steve Hatfield-Dodds ABARES	Speaker tbc	Craig Feuerherdt H2OX

WEDNESDAY 3 MARCH 2021
10.00am – 11.00am	1.30pm – 2.30pm	3.00pm – 4.00pm
What the threat of deglobalisation could mean for trade	Global and sustainable perspectives on the red meat sector	Grains – maintaining agile value chains
CHAIR: Sarina Locke, ABC	CHAIR: Sarina Locke, ABC	CHAIR: TBC
Michael Cox London School of Economics IDEAS	Speaker tbc ABARES	Amelia Brown ABARES
Speaker tbc	Simon Quilty MLX	James Murray Viterra
Speaker tbc	Speaker tbc	Mark Howden Climate Change Institute, ANU

THURSDAY 4 March 2021
10.00am – 11.00am	1.30pm – 2.30pm	3.00pm – 4.00pm
Horticulture and labour	Fisheries and aquaculture – lessons from a pandemic	Growing the plantation estate
CHAIR: TBC	CHAIR: TBC	CHAIR: Angus Verley, ABC
Charley Xia ABARES Outlook for horticultural production	Dave Mobsby ABARES The path ahead for Australian fisheries and aquaculture through COVID-19 - outlook to 2025	Linden Whittle ABARES
Gavin Scurr Pinata Farms Sourcing a horticulture workforce across Australia in the time of COVID	Emily Ogier Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	Rob de Fegely AM Margules Groome Consulting
Martina Matzner Acacia Hills mango farm Unique challenges of a diverse workforce and the flexibility needed to make it work	Veronica Papacosta Seafood Industry Australia	Speaker tbc
Michael Fryszer The Connect Group The pathway to a competitive and returning horticultural workforce in Australia – challenges and opportunities	Speaker tbc	Speaker tbc

FRIDAY 5 March 2021
10.00am – 11.00am	1.30pm – 2.30pm	3.00pm – 4.00pm
Helping Australian farmers adapt to climate change	Milk or Milk© – how are attributes driving value creation along the supply chain?	Creating value, managing risk and developing partnerships: the way forward for Australia’s biosecurity system
CHAIR: Sarina Locke, ABC	CHAIR: Peter Somerville, ABC	CHAIR: TBC
Neal Hughes ABARES	Andrew Cameron ABARES	Tom Kompas Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis The value of biosecurity
Ross Kingwell Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre Grain farmers' climate adaptations and the journey towards carbon neutrality	Speaker tbc	Andrew Tongue Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Jason Crean NSW Department of Primary Industries	Speaker tbc	Speaker tbc
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