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8th Edition, September 2016

 

Design your farm business for profitability - places still available!

'A Better Farm Business by Your Design'

We've postponed the start of our second financial management program, delivered in collaboration with MacKillop Farm Management Group, to Wednesday 14 September.

Make the most of this opportunity!

'A Better Farm Business by Your Design' will help you:

  • Understand your current business health
  • Identify your profit drivers
  • Benefit from coaching/mentoring with producers who have already made changes and improved their business profitability

The program fee is $250 with workshops held in Naracoorte:

  • Workshop 1 - Wednesday 14 September 9am -5pm
  • Workshop 2 - Thursday 29 September 9am – 5pm
  • Workshop 3 - Thursday 19 October OR Friday 20 October (mini 'board' meetings - to be confirmed with participants)

For more information, contact Ann Aldersey: 

ann@limestonecoastredmeat.com.au or 0428 854 825

 

Livestock SA Update & AGM and SA Cattle Producers' Forum

Friday, September 16, 2016
The Carlton Club, Hahndorf

The Update & AGM features farm business management topics including:

  • Top tips for employing staff and being Pastoral Award compliant with industrial relations specialist Chas Cini
  • Tips to improving connectivity for a modern day on-farm workplace with farm connectivity specialist Ian Ware
  • A look at the new Brands App, currently under development by the State Government and Livestock SA
  • Reports from the President, CEO, SA Sheep and Cattle Advisory Groups
  • Results of the 2016 Board Member Elections

The SA Cattle Producers Forum features an outstanding line-up of speakers including:

  • Richard Norton, Meat and Livestock Australia Managing Director, MLA and your R&D investment
  • Brett Thompson, Woolworths National Beef Procurement Manager, Woolworths and beef producers – what consumers are demanding
  • and how the need can be filled ...
  • Jed Matz, Cattle Council of Australia Chief Executive, Advocacy in the beef industry at a national level
  • Professor David Pethick, Murdoch University, What’s new with dark-cutting ...
  • Jessira Perovic, Eating Quality Analytics at Meat and Livestock Australia, On the cutting edge ... research and development for beef
  • Mark Hutchinson, National Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, Measurement technology and potential applications for
  • agriculture in next five years
  • John Williams, Davies Research Centre, The Davies Research Centre underpinning the sustainability of red meat supply
  • Stephen Lee, Blueprint Manager, An introduction to the SA Cattle Industry Blueprint
  • University of Adelaide 'three-minute thesis' students 

RSVP by September 13 at www.livestocksa.org.au/AGM

 

Keeping in touch....

Don't hesitate to contact Project Coordinator Ann Aldersey on 0428 854 825 or ann@limestonecoastredmeat.com.au if you have any queries or suggestions.

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