This year is FAR's 20th birthday and we will be celebrating with a conference. Future Visions for the Arable Industry, will be held at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 July.
After our very successful 2014 conference in Palmerston North, we are looking forward to hosting this event, which we know will be equally well supported. Planning is well underway for sessions on Cereals, Farm systems, Seeds and Potatoes. There will also be an afternoon of field visits and of course a Conference dinner.
We are very pleased to confirm three international speakers: Mike Carver, the former Director of NIAB TAG, who did a lot of work with FAR in our first 10 years; David Firman, a potato yield expert from NIAB CUF, and leading Australian herbicide resistance researcher Chris Preston.
The Cereals, Farm systems and Seed sessions will feature a speaker who was involved with FAR at its inception, and who will briefly outline achievements to date. The rest of the session will focus on current issues and research, looking at new ideas and technologies that will provide solutions for the arable industry moving forward.
Session dates
Wednesday 22 July 2015
Morning: Cereals. Afternoon: Field trips. Evening: Conference dinner.
Thursday 23 July 2015
Morning: Farm systems. Afternoon: Seeds (concurrent) & Potaotes (concurrent).
One day registrations will be available for the second day, to allow potato growers to attend this day's sessions only. Potatoes NZ will run their one day conference in Ashburton the following day, allowing potato growers to stay on for this event.