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
09.40 Q&A on Netherlands film
Kees Gorter, dairy farmer
Theun Vellinga, dairy scientist
Marc Jansen, dairy consumer
09.50 Main Speaker John Gilliland - Chairman of the Rural Climate Change Forum, DEFRA, London; Chairman of Rural Generation Ltd and past President of the Ulster Farmers’ Union
10.15 Dr. Gideon K. Brückner - Deputy Director General World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on impact on animal health & welfare
10:40 Coffee break
11.00 Pierre Gerber FAO - FAO Livestock’s Long Shadow
11.20 Questions
11.30 Professor Maggie Gill - University of Aberdeen and also the Chief Scientific Adviser for Rural Affairs and the Environment, The Scottish Government on IPCC activities in agriculture
11.50 Questions
12:00 Short films from dairy farmers around the world
USA
Q&A on USA film
John Noble, dairy farmer
Paul Martin, dairy expert
Kelly Hamilton, dairy consumer
Brazil
Q&A on Brazil film
Roberto Jank, dairy farmer
Pedro Arcuri, dairy scientist
Marcelo Carvalho, dairy consumer
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Short films from dairy farmers around the world
Egypt
Q&A on Egypt film
Walid El-Sherbiny, dairy farmer
Rafik Riad, Min of Envir. Prot.
Rehab El-Bakry, dairy consumer
China
Q&A on China film
Qiau Lu, dairy farmer
Li Sheng Li, dairy scientist
Yang Xiu Wen, dairy consumer
14.40 Roger Street UKCIP - Climate model projections for featured countries
15.00 Questions
15.10 Torsten Hemme, IFCN, Kiel Germany - Economic perspective, data base for comparisons
15.30 Questions
15.40 Tea Break
16:10 Global warming and green house gas emissions
Panel and delegate interactions
Green house gas emissions on dairy farms, Theun Vellinga, Waageningen, NL
Jamie Newbold, UK
Pierre Gerber, FAO
Roger Street, UK
Kees Gorter, dairy farmer, NL
Kelly Hamilton, dairy consumer USA
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
Energy usage and production potentials on dairy farms, Paul Martin, USA
David Ludington, Cornell, USA
Marcelo Carvalho, Brazil
John Gilliland, UK
John Noble, dairy farmer, USA
Rehab El-Bakry, dairy consumer, Egypt
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Deforestation and Biodiversity
Panel and delegate interaction
Agroforestry and dairy farming, Pedro Arcuri, Brazil
Biodiversity and dairy farming, NN
Tim Nelson, Australia
Roberto Jank, dairy farmer, Brazil
Marc Jansen, dairy consumer, NL
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Water Access and Usage
Panel and delegate interaction
Water usage on dairy farms, Stephen Coats, Australia
Walid El-Sherbiny, dairy farmer, Egypt
Yang Xiu Wen, dairy consumer, China
Anna Hall, National Farmers Union, UK
15:30 Tea break
16:00 Pollution and Contamination
Panel and delegate interaction
Threats on the environment from dairy farms, Li Sheng Li, Beijing AU, PRC
Contamination risks on dairy farms, Allan Burgess, Australia
Dave Chadwick, UK
Qiau Lu, dairy farmer, Beijing, PRC
Marcelo Carvalho, dairy consumer, Brazil
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
11.15 Start of tours
Acrehead
Water Adrian Jones
Slurry/fertilizer Bob Rees/James Coupland
Conservation Davy McCracken/RSPB
Crichton
Systems/Genetics GHC Mizeck Chagunda
Welfare interactions Marie Haskell
Farming in an NVZ Hugh McClymont
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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