Down to Earth Speaker Programme

Wednesday 3rd July | David Craven, Grosvenor Farms, Aldford, Cheshire
Main StageTalk Stations

Main Stage

10:00 am & 1:30 pm
IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID CRAVEN, CHARLIE STEER & JOHN GILLILAND

Hosted by David Christensen, Dairy and Beef Farmer

10:20 am & 1:50 pm
GROSVENOR FARMS – THE COMMERCIAL PICTURE

Mark Roach, Managing Director, Grosvenor Farms

10:40 am & 2:10 pm
PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO REDUCE DAIRY EMISSIONS – A FOCUS ON METHANE

Adrian Packington, Bovaer Project

11:00 am & 2:30 pm
ACHIEVING THE DELIVERABLES OF A MILK CONTRACT WITH A HIGH INPUT HOUSED SYSTEM

Richard Collins, Head of Agriculture, Muller & Natalie Smith, Head of Agriculture, Tesco

11:30 am & 3:00 pm
SUSTAINABLE FARMING INCENTIVE – YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Edward Earnshaw, Just Farm

12:00 pm & 3:30 pm
FEED EFFICIENCY FUNDAMENTALS FOR THE FUTUREĀ 

Dr Anna Sutcliffe, Ruminant Technical Manager at AB Dairy and Emma McAvoy, Consultant at Kite Consulting

12:30 pm
LIVE PODCAST, HOSTED BY KITE CONSULTING

Talk Stations

TALK 1

11:30AM, 1:00PM & 2:30PM

UNDERSTANDING SOIL BIOLOGY AND HOW THIS LINKS TO SOIL HEALTHĀ 

Dr Felicity Crotty, Principal Consultant Agriculture and LandĀ and BGS Trustee

TALK 2

11:30AM, 1:00PM & 2:30PM

RENEWABLE ENERGY: THE POSSIBILITIES AND ITS PLACE IN A COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE

Charles Bowyer, Business Development Manager & Trisha Toop, Delivery Director, UK Agri-Tech Centre

TALK 3

11:30AM, 1:00PM & 2:30PM

THE IMPACT OF GENETIC SELECTION ON OUTPUT AND EFFICIENCY AT GROSVENOR FARMS

Sion Parry, Genetics and Data Analysis Specialist, Cogent

ECOFEED AND THE ROLE IT PLAYS IN THE DAIRY AND BEEF INDUSTRY

Dr Jody Edmunds, Genetics and Services Manager, Cogent