The event is entirely devoted to global warming, its impact on dairy farming and how dairy farming affects the environment. Topics that will be discussed include climate change, pollution, deforestation, water shortage and energy use.
“As the market leader, it is our responsibility to be at the forefront when it comes to developing solutions that enables our customers to decrease their environmental footprint and to ensure that they are equipped to meet the increasing demands put on them,” says Joakim Rosengren, President & CEO at DeLaval International AB.
Farmers from some 40 countries will attend and discuss actions to reduce the impact on nature. The Summit will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 25-27, 2008.
“Our aim is to give the dairy producers some practical, hands on advice on what they can do to reduce environmental impact as part of their daily routines. We all have a responsibility when it comes to these questions and we can contribute one way or the other”, says the Chairman of the organizing committee, David Homer – a dairy farmer himself.
Dairy producers from 40 countries will actively participate in defining the problems and identifying feasible solutions that can improve their businesses through interactive panel discussions.
Day one will be spent setting the global scene and feature five films of dairy farmers from different countries describing the particular characteristics in their countries. They will cover: energy source and usage, USA, water access and usage, Egypt, climate change and global warming, Netherlands, contamination and pollution, China, and biodiversity and deforestation, Brazil.
Day two will comprise panel discussions where the subjects will be dealt with in more detail.
All delegates will also visit the Acrehead and Crichton Dairy Units at the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) Dairy Research Farm at Dumfries on the final day to see how these issues impact on the life of dairy farmer first-hand and identify actions that farmers can take to take to ensure that dairy farming has a sustainable and profitable future for the long term.
For preliminary programme, see below, or click here to download pdf>>
For more information about the event and to register please visit the Summit website at: www.eventsforce.net/idfdfs
For more information on the First IDF Dairy Farming Summit, please contact:
Claire Bowley – Director: Dynamic Conferences & Events Ltd
E-mail: claire.bowley@dynamic-events.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1797 223626
First IDF Dairy Farming Summit
Edinburgh June 2008
“Climate Change - the heat is on?”
Preliminary Programme
24th June 2008, registration opens
Day One 25th June 2008
08:00 - Onwards Registration
08:55 Introduction
09.00 Richard Lochhead - Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment / Jim Begg - IDF President
09.20 David Homer - Chairman IDF UK / Ulf Wickbom - conference moderator
09.30 Short films from dairy farmers around the world:
Netherlands - Climate change
09.40 Q&A on Netherlands film
09.50 Main Speaker John Gilliland - Chair and Director of Rural Generation Ltd and member of the Sustainable Development Commission
10.15 OIE Impact on animal health & welfare
10:40 Coffee break
11.00 FAO Livestock’s Long Shadow
11.20 Questions
11.30 Professor Maggie Gill - Scottish Agricultural College Aberdeen on IPCC activities in agriculture
11.50 Questions
12:00 Short films from dairy farmers around the world
USA - Energy source and usage
Brazil - Biodiversity and deforestation
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Short films from dairy farmers around the world
Egypt - Water access and consumption
China - Contamination and pollution control
14.40 Hadley Centre / UKCIP - Prediction climate models for featured countries
15.00 Questions
15.10 IFCN - Economic perspective
15.30 Questions
15.40 Tea Break
16:10 Global warming and green house gas emissions
Panel and delegate interactions
17:15 Round up off day one session
17:30 Day one session end
19:00 Walk to evening reception at Edinburgh Castle
Day Two 26th June 2008
09:00 Energy Sources and Usage
Panel and delegate interaction
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Deforestation and Biodiversity
Panel and delegate interaction
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Water Access and Usage
Panel and delegate interaction
15:30 Tea break
16:00 Pollution and Contamination
Panel and delegate interaction
17:15 Day two session ends
19:30 Drinks
20:00 Gala Dinner
Day Three 27th June 2008
Visit to SAC Crichton Royal research and demonstration farm
08.00 Leave hotel
10.30 Arrive at Easterbrook Hall - coffee, biscuits, bacon rolls.
Introduction and IFM - Dave Roberts
11.00 Leave Easterbrook hall to Farms in 2 groups
A To Acrehead
B To Crichton
12.15 Start of tours
Acrehead
Water Adrian Jones/Hugh McClymont
Slurry/fertilizer Bob Rees/James Coupland
Conservation Davy McCracken/RSPB
Crichton
Systems/Genetics GHC Mizeck Chagunda/Eileen Wall
Welfare interactions Marie Haskell/Jenny Gibbons
Nitrates/ soil nutrients Dave Roberts/Desiree Romer
12.15 Group move to other farm
12.30 Start of second series of tour
13.30 Groups go back to Easterbrook - Final summing up in hall
14.15 Leave with packed lunches to eat on coach.
16.45 Arrive back in Edinburgh
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