Key players in the Dairy Industry will be spear-heading a major conference at the Bath & West Showground next week (January 18th).
The Royal Bath & West of England Society, organisers of The Dairy Show, is joining forces with RABDF (The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers which organises The Dairy Event), to spearhead Dairy Conference 2006.
“Dairying – Which Way Forward?” is the title of the conference being held at the Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, on Wednesday, January 18th, from 10am to 4pm.
Sponsored by NatWest, DEFRA and Business Link the conference is being heralded as an important date for all dairy farmers’ dairies, and includes top-level speakers as well as question and answer sessions with a team of experts.
Speakers include Rex Ward, Vice-Chairman of Milk Link, Sandy Wilkie, Sales and Marketing Director of Robert Wiseman, John Beckett, President of RABDF, Nicky Tyler, Managing Director of Kingsplay Farming Co. Ltd, and Prof David Colman, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Manchester.
The Conference Chairman is Tim Brigstocke, Chairman of RABDF, and also Chairman of the Project Board for the RABDF/Plunkett Foundation Director Training project in the Milk Groups Sector. He is also a member of the England Implementation group (EIG) to the UK Government’s Animal Health and Welfare Strategy and serves on the Defra Dairy Supply Chain Forum and the UK Dairy Farmers Forum of Dairy UK.
Tickets for the conference are £15 for Royal Bath & West of England Society and RABDF Members, or £20 for non-members, and include lunch and tea. Book now on the credit card hotline on 01749 822 222. The closing date for tickets is January 13th.
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RABDF Conference
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