Orange Meat Profit Day
The Orange Meat Profit Day was held on 12 November 2008 at the Australian National Field Days site at Borenore via Orange, NSW.
Over 370 attendees mingled with industry experts and discovered ways to achieve greater profitability within their business.
The event offered attendees to hear from a range of speakers who covered the following topics:
Morning Session
Opening of the Orange Meat Profit Day
Hamish Munro - Chair, Orange MPD Committee
The road ahead for Australian red meat
Don Heatley - Chair, Meat & Livestock Australia
Russia: growing demand for red meat
Sergey Yushin - Chief of the Executive Committee, Russian National Meat Association
Emissions trading and agriculture
Mick Keogh - Executive Director, Australian Farm Institute
Who's buying?
Chair
Lucinda Corrigan - Director, MLA
Connecting the dots from the farm to the consumer
Richard Gunner - Richard Gunner's Fine Meats Pty Ltd
Consumers - what the heck do they want now?
David Thomason - General Manager Marketing, MLA
Diversifying into new markets
Dr Peter Barnard - General Manager International Markets & Economic Services, MLA
MSA - the essential ingredient
Chair
Lachlan Bowtell - Trade Marketing Manager, MLA
Next generation meat quality
Prof Dave Pethick - Sheep CRC National Coordinator Sheepmeat Eating Quality
Value creation: exceeding customer expectations
Andrew Negline - Corporate Brands & New Product Innovation Manager, Cargill Beef Australia
Supplying animals into the MSA system
Derek Hubert - producer, Orange
Challenge, change, profit
Chair
Robbie Sefton - Director, Sefton & Associates
Case study - sheep
Jenny Bradley, producer from Armatree
Case study - beef
Trevor Jorgensen, producer from Delungra
Improving productivity - tools for producers
Alex Russell & Brett Littler, DPI
Goats - never boering!
Chair
Marie Barnes - Boer goat producer, Cudal
Tapping into the domestic goat meat market
David Booth, Buronga Organics
Making the most of live export opportunities
Fiona Lander, Capricorn Pastoral Company
Overview of the goat meat industry and global demand
Pete Schuster, Schuster Consulting Group
Afternoon Session
Close of the Orange Meat Profit Day
David Palmer - Managing Director, MLA
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MLA would like to thank the following companies for their generous sponsorship of the Orange Meat Profit Day:
Major Corporate Partners
Elders and The Land
Exhibitors
Beef Australia 2009, Coopers Animal Health, Pfizer Animal Health, Zee Tags Ltd, Rangelands Australia, Sheep Genetics, Sheep CRC, NSW Farmers' Association, Future Farm Industries CRC
Speaker powerpoint presentations are available upon request.
Contacts
Liz Allen
Acting Events and Member Services Manager
Meat & Livestock Australia
Phone: 02 9463 9318
Fax: 02 9463 9208
Email: lallen@mla.com.au
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