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Speakers from across the country and overseas, covered some of the MOST EXCITING farming and food production initiatives of our time. Closer to home, the conference heard from young producers involved with the RNAA’s Norfolk Voices for Norfolk Futures initiative, representing the INDUSTRY'S NEXT GENERATION
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0815 - 0900
Arrival
with tea and coffee
0900 - 0905
Take your seats
Launch of the Norfolk Rural Business Awards
0905 - 0910
Welcome and introduction
with Dr Belinda Clarke, Conference Chair
0915 - 0945
Opening address
Speaker to be confirmed
0945 - 1030
Changing requirements of the Food Supply chain
Vidyanath Gururajan,
Projects Director Branston
Produce
Session 1
0945 - 1030
​Changing requirements of the Food Supply chain
Ash Gilman,
Director Agricultural Strategy Cranswick Plc
Session 1
0945 - 1030
​Changing requirements of the Food Supply chain
Prof Debbie Sparkes,
Agriculture Science Manager Diageo
Session 1
1100 - 1130
Break
with tea and coffee
Session 1
1030 - 1100
Case study: Implications for Norfolk's farmers
James Green,
Group Director of Agriculture G’s
Session 1
1130 - 1215
Is the UK prepared? Biosecurity for plants and animals
Prof Jonathan Jones FRS DL,
The Sainsbury Laboratory
Session 2
1130 - 1215
Is the UK prepared? Biosecurity for plants and animals
Richard McIntosh,
Assistant Chief Plant Health
Officer Defra
Session 2
1130 - 1215
Is the UK prepared? Biosecurity for plants and animals
Sascha Van Helvoort,
Outbreak Veterinary
Head APHA
Session 2
1215 - 1245
Case study:
Ian Baker,
North Farm Livestock
Session 2
1245 - 1345
Lunch
and networking
Session 2
1345 - 1415
Keynote address
Séan Rickard,
Economist
Session 2
1415 - 1445
Break
with tea and coffee
Session 2
1445 - 1530
Mapping the landscape - auditing the land for food production and the environment
Peter Craven,
Head of Agriculture Natural England
Session 3
1445 - 1530
Mapping the landscape - auditing the land for food production and the environment
Sir Charles Godfray,
Director Oxford Martin School
Session 3
1445 - 1530
Mapping the landscape - auditing the land for food production and the environment
Diana Overton,
Deputy Group Managing Director Frontier
Session 3
1530 - 1600
Case study: Land management vision
Archie Ruggles-Brise,
Spains Hall Estate
Session 3
1625 - 1630
Closing remarks
Conference Chair
1600 - 1625
Keynote closing address: Making sense of it all
Paul Temple,
Wold Farm Driffield and Vice-Chairman at Global Farmer Network
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