Lively debate for all with Cereals conference

Cereals 2010 to bring a summer conference to the arable sector’s flagship technical event. Speakers will tackle two topics - applied arable science and the Campaign for the Farmed Environment.

“The OFC is associated with a high level conference at the start of January in the formal surroundings of Oxford University,” says OFC chairman, Christine Tacon.

“We are really excited about teaming up with Cereals 2010 to run a conference at the event. The Oxford Farming Conference’s charitable remit is very clearly a leadership and educational role, yet we are restricted in the number of people who can be at the conference by the capacity of the Examination Halls at Oxford.

“Teaming up with Cereals allows us to debate some of the arable sector’s big issues in an open and ‘all-welcome’ forum, with some high-profile leaders.”

Two sessions will be held on both days of Cereals starting with the ‘Science in the Arable Sector’ at 11am and the ‘Campaign for the Farmed Environment’ at 2.30pm.

“The science session will highlight some of the latest arable innovations and will explore where future R&D needs to be focused to meet the objectives of both farmers and the supply chain,” says Ms Tacon, who is also managing director of The Co-operative Farms, itself a large arable business.

“The Campaign for the Farmed Environment session will tackle how the campaign is progressing and its commercial viability on arable farms.”

Oxford Farming Conference directors will chair all four Arable Conference sessions.

The organisers are encouraging visitors to come and join the debate. “The conference will be open to all and held in a large, airy marquee with plenty of standing room at the back, for those who just want to wander in and listen,” says Ms Tacon.

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