The Oxford Farming Conference

OFC Welcome & Opening

OFC Co-Chairs Barbara Bray and Sarah Mukherjee

Minister Damien O’Connor & Mel Poulton - New Zealand Agriculture

Charlie McConalogue, Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Jason Hafemeister Secretary’s Trade Counsel, US Department of Agriculture

Secretary of State Speech - George Eustice

National Session

George Eustice, Lesley Griffiths & Edwin Poots

National Session (with questions)

Hero or villain? How farming holds the key to net zero.

Professor Sarah Bridle

Lessons from science - routes to resilience

Dr Catherine Nakalembe - NASA Harvest; Assistance Research Professor, University of Maryland

Inspiring Farmers

This session included an opening video from RABI

The Squeezed Middle

OFC Honorary President, HRH The Princess Royal

This house believes the demise of the family farm has been greatly exaggerated

Proposers: Jyoti Fernandes and Paul Kelly
Opposers: Joe Stanley and John McCallister

The Farm of the Future

Full session including Sarah, Alan and Stephan

Sarah Mock

Alan Matthews

Stephan Peterman

The National Food Strategy

Henry Dimbleby

Navigating towards a nature positive food system.

Dame Ellen MacArthur

The 2022 Oxford Report: Natural Capital - the battle for control.

OFC Close

OFC 2022 Co-Chairs Barbara Bray and Sarah Mukherjee close the 2022 conference, and hand over to OFC 2023 Chair, Emily Norton

CAAV - Farming & Land Use: Having Control

Trinity Ag Tech - How to capture the value from natural capital

Fera - How to Future proof your land in response to changing social, economic, and environmental pressures

Barclays/Defra - Developing incubator models to support new entrant innovation

Fringe - Breedr - Building a Resilient British Livestock Industry

Fringe - Food, Farming and Countryside Commission - Can I have some more: what's on the menu for 2030?

Fringe - Agritech - Meet the UK Agritech centre

Fringe - Anthesis and Sustainable Food Trust - How a global farm metric can drive resilient and profitable agriculture

Fringe - WWF-UK & Tesco Partnership - How far can farming go to reach net zero?

Precursor to the 2022 OFC Report - Natural Capital: The Battle for Control session