The Oxford Farming Conference
Wednesday 2nd January, 2013
15:00
AGM
The Examination Schools
16:00
Fringe Meeting
Sponsored by Hosted by The Woodland Trust
Land Sharing - The role of trees in supporting sustainable intensification
16:00
Fringe Meeting
Sponsored by Hosted by BBSRC
What is agricultural sustainability and what can science contribute?
16:00
Delegate Registration Opens
16:00
Fringe Meeting
Sponsored by Hosted by IAgrE and ES-KTN
More for Less - Innovative technologies to deliver food security and new business opportunities for the UK
18:00
Chairman’s Reception for Speakers, Scholars, Patrons and Sponsors
Sponsored by McDonald's
18:30
Champagne Reception
Sponsored by Dovecote Park
at OXFORD TOWN HALL
19:30
Pre Conference Dinner
Sponsored by Bidwells and Frontier Agriculture
At Oxford Town Hall with Lord Henry Plumb as after dinner speaker.
Produce supplied by ABP and Greenvale
22:00
After Dinner Bar
At OXFORD TOWN HALL
Thursday 3rd January, 2013
07:30
Morning Prayer
with Rev Graham Jones
at University College Chapel.
07:45
Clydesdale Bank Breakfast
UK and global economic outlook - impact on agriculture
08:45
Conference opening
Mike Gooding, Chairman
08:55
SESSION 1 - Politics Session
Sponsored by Morning Session sponsored by Massey Ferguson
Nick Tapp, Chairman
09:00
Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP
Secretary of State for Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
09:20
Mairead McGuinness MEP
Member European Parliament, Agriculture Committee
09:40
Hon John Luxton
Chairman of Dairy New Zealand
10:00
Question Time
Sponsored by Massey Ferguson
with the three session speakers plus Jim McLaren former NFU Scotland President and Chairman of QMS
David Hughes, Chairman
11:15
Coffee Break
Sponsored by Taylors of Harrogate
11:45
The Frank Parkinson Lecture - A Changing Perspective
Sponsored by The Frank Parkinson Trust
Mark Lynas, Environmental campaigner and author
12:45
Lunch
Sponsored by Massey Ferguson
14:00
SESSION 2 - Farming in Society
Sponsored by Waitrose
Mike Gooding, Chairman
14:00
Introduction Video by HRH The Prince of Wales
14:10
Presentation of the 2013 Oxford Farming Conference Research Report
Sponsored by Burges Salmon, RSPB and Volac
What do UK farmers deliver to society?
Dr Peter Carruthers, MD Vision 37 and Professor Michael Winter, Professor & Director of the Centre for Rural Policy Research, Exeter University
14:40
What does this mean to the Consumer?
Tom Heap, BBC Presenter
15:00
What does this mean to the Farmer?
Ian Pigott, LEAF demonstration farmer
15:20
What does this mean to Society?
Matthew Taylor, CEO, RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce)
15:40
Discussion
The five speakers from this session with be joined by Julia Aglionby, Director of the National Centre for the Uplands, Newton Rigg College, for a panel discussion with questions from the floor.
16:10
Close and Tea
16:30
Scholars' Workshop
Sponsored by McDonald’s
With speaker James Price, arable farmer and NABIM 2011 Milling Wheat Grower of the Year
18:00
Oxford Union Debate
Sponsored by Birketts LLP, Saffery Champness and Smiths Gore
The Motion: This house believes economies of scale in agriculture are overstated – size is not important
Proposing the Motion: Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, Owner/MD The Black Farmer
Opposing the Motion: John Cameron, farmer and past, president of NFU Scotland
19:30
Post Debate Supper
Sponsored by Birketts LLP, Saffery Champness and Smiths Gore
at Christ Church
Friday 4th January, 2013
07:45
The RSPB Early Bird Breakfast
Celebrating all that farming does for wildlife
08:45
SESSION 3 - Technology and Innovation
Sponsored by M&S
Adrian Ivory, Chairman
08:50
Pushing up average wheat yields: What can we achieve and how?
Professor Maurice Maloney, Director and Chief Executive of Rothamsted Research
09:20
Developing the right genetic stock for a different future
Mark Smith, Global Bovine Product Development & Production Director at Genus plc
09:50
Will precision farming change the face of UK agriculture?
Jake Freestone, Farmer and Nuffield Scholar in Precision Farming
10:20
Coffee Break
Sponsored by Taylors of Harrogate
10:50
Where might science, technology and our understanding take us?
David Gardner, CEO of RASE
11:20
Panel Discussion
with session speakers
11:45
OFC/RASE Science in Practice Award
Sponsored by AB Agri
12:00
Lunch
13:30
SESSION 4 - Inspiration and Vision
David Douglas, Chairman
13:40
Supply Chains
A Vision for the Future
Bill Mustoe, Chairman of First Milk
14:10
Managing Our Agricultural Talent
Martin Thorley, Merston Peters Recruitment Consultants
14:40
Finding a New Farming Paradigm
Yehuda Sprecher, Dairy Cow Housing design specialist
15:15
Panel Discussion
with session speakers
15:30
Chairman’s Closing Remarks
15:30
Conference Close & Tea
19:30
Oxtail Club Dinner
at Worcester College