Cropping

VFF Grains Group conference heads to Moama

By Rodney Woods

Feb 19, 2020

The VFF Grains Group’s annual conference will be held in Moama this month, with the theme being future innovation in broadacre cropping.

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The conference will showcase new innovation, practices and technologies that can further assist farmers advance their businesses.

Other key issues impacting producers such as the Murray Basin Rail Project and short grain trader payment terms will also be discussed.

University of Melbourne's Dookie Campus Professor Tim Reeves will officially open the conference and address attendees on the future sustainability of the grains industry.Other speakers include Dr Mike Walsh, from the University of Sydney; Gary Gale, from Digital Agriculture Services; and the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell.

A dinner cruise will be held on Sunday, February 23 from 6 pm, before the conference is officially opened at 8.30 am on Monday, February 24. The conferences finishes at 5.30 pm, before a gala dinner is held at 6.30 pm.

The conference will be held at the Rich River Golf Club, Twenty Four Lane, Moama, NSW.

To register for the dinners and the conference, phone 1300 882 833.