THE LambEx 2016 committee has recruited speakers from across the world, Australia, and locally to discuss a wide-range of issues to challenge and encourage, producers and industry to boost productivity and profits.
Here’s a snapshot of the topics they will cover.
Day one: Thursday, August 11
- Rodney Watt, LambEx 2016 chair, welcome to LambEx 2016
Session 1: The Lambscape
- Paul Higgins, Emergent Futures, The choice is ours – Farmers or Peasants
- Chef Neil Doherty, Sysco Corporation, US, The American perception of Australian lamb
- Peter Andrews, Andrews Meat Industries, Meeting the needs of our food service customers
- Lisa Sharp, Meat & Livestock Australia, The international traveller
Session 2: Meat Science
- Professor Graham Gardner, Murdoch University, The new world of carcase measurement is here
- Professor David Pethick, Murdoch University, A matter of taste
- Dr David Hopkins, NSW DPI, MLA butcher Doug Piper, and MLA chef, Sam Burke, Big lamb small cuts
Session 3: Bringing the paddock to life
- Jason Trompf, JT Consulting, The gaps between ewe and you
- Vicky Geddes, Yallock, Holbrook, NSW, It’s Ewe Time at Yallock
- Matt Browning, Borambil manager, Paraway Pastoral Group, NSW, The true cost of best practise lamb survival
- Philip Gough, Salamanca Pastoral Trust, Hotspur, Vic, A journey of change
Session 4: Our Future, Safe Hands
- Caris Jones, Sheep Genetics, one of the inaugural winners of the Young Guns LambEx competition in Adelaide in 2014, Our future, safe hands
- Finalists from the White Suffolk Association 2016 Young Guns competition are introduced to LambEx delegates, Our future, safe hands
Evening: The Sheepmeat Council of Australia pre-dinner drinks, Grands-Lamb Dinner
Day two: Friday, August 12
Session 1: Survive & Thrive
- Robert de Castella, AO MBE, Indigenous Marathon Foundation, From outback Australia to Central Park New York City
- Chris Wilson, producer and member of the Riverina Bluebell initiative, Wantabadgery, NSW, The unspeakable white elephant
- Pip Job, former RIRDC National Rural Woman of the Year, Geurie, NSW, Young people just won’t listen. Or will they?
Session 2: Brighter Horizons
- Graeme Anderson, Agriculture Victoria, The odds of boom or bust spring
- Mark Wootton, Jigsaw Farms, Vic, Planning for the worst and hoping for the best
- Dr Gordon Refshauge, NSW DPI, Grazing cereals with demanding sheep – maximise growth, health and welfare
- Phil Graham, NSW DPI, Setting up the ewe for the new horizon
- Paul Blackshaw, Agriculture Victoria, Would Warren Buffet buy your farm business?
Session 3: A matter of trust
- Dave Maslen, New Zealand Merino, NZ, Becoming ‘brand-intimate’
- Ed Fagan, NSW 2015 farmer of the Year, Cowra, NSW, The havoc of generic
- Adventurers Cas and Jonesy, Pushing the boundaries for human endurance
The Fairfax Agricultural Media and NSW Stud Merino Breeders Association prize draw
