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| Innovation Breakfast |
Learn from two Southland businesses about their challenges of dealing with a changing social, sustainability focused and general business environment. How they have used innovation to capture new opportunities and rise to these challenges.
You will also get an update from Southland's Regional Development Agency, Great South on how the New Zealand energy sector will look in the future.
NOTE: This is a Pre-SIDE presentation and attracts a cost to cover a Buffet Cooked Breakfast.
Timing: 7.00am - 8.30am | To register, click here
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Benji Biswas - Crunchy (Vertical Farming)
Hamish McMurdo - Recycle South
Steve Canny - Great South & NZ Hydrogen Council
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| Mitigating Milk Price Risk: Techniques for Achieving Milk Price Stability |
Join NZX and BDO for an interactive workshop where we'll equip you with the skills and knowledge to manage milk price risk within your business. Rod Hansen, Director at BDO, will explain how to assess risk within your business and develop a hedging policy. Plus, David Sellen and Matt Manning from NZX will guide you through the various hedging tools available. To top it all off, we'll finish with a trading simulation lead by NZX to help you put your new skills into practice. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take control of your milk price risk management!
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- Matt Manning - NZX - New Zealand Exchange
- David Sellen - NZX - New Zealand Exchange
- Rod Hansen - BDO
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| World of Wearables |
Ryan Luckman, a Veterinarian with a big interest in Epidemiology will present this session. The adoption of technology especially behaviour monitoring of collars is ramping up at an incredible pace in New Zealand. With Ryans intensive experience and research in this area he will give us a front row seat to discover how our farmers can leverage the true potential of the data and technology they've paid for. He will also talk about the advantages and disadvantages which go alongside new technology adoption. Through many trials and monitoring data on different farms over a long period of time he will share his knowledge and data findings in all aspects in this area.
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Ryan Luckman - The Veterinary Centre, Waimate
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| Tackle Your To-Do List |
Do you ever feel like there’s not enough hours in the day? Loshni Manikam will explain a simple, practical way to tackle your To-Do List, that you can implement immediately, reducing your stress levels and increasing your efficiency.
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Loshni Manikam
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| Skin in the Game - Contract Milking and Being Self-Employed |
This workshop looks at contract milking from the angle of both the young farm manager and farm owner by way of a panel discussion with farmers and industry experts.
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Panelists are:
- Marie Crowley & Peter Hughes - Farm Owners
- Jamie McCrostie - Progressing Sharemilker
- Mark Horgan - Banking background
- Tony Miles - Farm Consultant
- Brett McDonough - Accountant
- Gonzalo Bascur and Nayabet Espinoza - Contract Milkers
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| Work Smarter, Not Harder - a guide to using apps in your day to day farming |
A panel of three farmers will talk you through what technology, including an e-diary, payroll, gps proof of placement app, and social media, that they find useful in their day-to-day farming.
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Panelists are:
Tracy Henderson - Southland Dairy Farmer
Luke Templeton - Southland Dairy Farmer
Stu Russell - Canterbury Dairy Farmer
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| How to be the Best Boss |
The speakers of this workshop will talk about what systems they use to run an efficient business, keeping their staff motivated, and share their experience managing and retaining their people on farm. They will provide tips on navigating the current NZ immigration process when employing migrants on and offshore, as well as the current employer accreditation and job check process.
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Stefan and Annalize du Plessis - Southland Dairy Farmers
Amy Heenan - Chileforce Ltd
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| Catchment Groups - On the Ground Progress through Science |
Thriving Southland have been supporting Southlands catchment groups for the last three years and during that time a multitude of projects have been undertaken from building sediment traps and testing water quality to brainstorming new ideas and gaining scientific knowledge. Come and hear about a few of these projects from the farmers driving change from the ground up.
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Rachael Halder - Senior Catchment Coordinator, Thriving Southland
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| Growing summer safe crops driven by your cows needs |
Our industry specialists will divulge specific nutritional and financial data about a range of alternative summer crops, enabling you to grow the best dry-matter crop for your cows needs for that time of year.
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Jim Beer - AgriCom
Daniel Knowles - Advance Agriculture
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| Tools for Success - Lean Management |
Lean Management tools have stood the test of time and are essential to maintaining a ‘Continuous Improvement’ culture. Put simply, 'Lean Management' is committing to a better tomorrow; Lean Tools help make this possible. Apolline Komene from FarmRight believes Lean is a sustainable strategy for every Farm Manager. This workshop offers examples and an honest reflection on the challenges of implementation.
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Apolline Komene - FarmRight
Gavin Tayles - FarmRight
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| Getting through an adverse weather or natural disaster event. Are you Prepared? |
Extreme weather events and natural disasters, like earthquakes, have a serious impact on the livelihoods of farmers, with farmers being required to make timely decisions. What would you do today to get through? You will hear from farmers who have got through and come out the other side. |
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| Breaking the Mould on Traditional Investments |
If you are looking to grow your equity, or add another revenue stream to your business, come and listen to a panel discussion on how they diversified their business, overcame hardships, and lessons they learnt on their journey to business success.
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Toni Auld - Auld Distillery
Tom O'Brien - Welcome Rock
Marijke Dunselman - AgriTourism
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| Efficient N use - getting the same growth for less |
This workshop will cover how to be more efficient with your nutrients to save you money while still maintaining high yields. Jim Risk of Ballance will take you through how to maximise your pasture with precise nutrient use
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Jim Risk - Ballance Agri Nutrients
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Post SIDE Optional Field Trip to the Southern Dairy Hub
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This is your opportunity to see what goes on at this world class research farm and hear the latest trial results, learning, and what's coming up next for the Hub. This is a must-do for anybody with an interest in research being done at farm level. (2 hours plus a BBQ afterwards)
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Dawn Dalley - DairyNZ
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