The state’s producers will again have a chance to debate grains, livestock and farm business issues, with the return of the GROWING SA conference.
After the success of the inaugural event Grain Producers SA and Livestock SA will host the 2018 conference at the Adelaide Hills Convention Centre, Hahndorf on Friday, September 14.
It will be a chance for farmers to hear the latest in policy developments, farm business advice and commodity research while networking with each other and industry service providers and policy decision-makers.
Both GPSA and Livestock SA will hold their annual general meetings during the day.
GPSA chief executive officer Caroline Rhodes says the response to the 2017 conference demonstrated a clear demand for this type of event on SA’s ag calendar.
“The event in 2017 was a great success and we want to leverage that for 2018, and ensure GROWING SA is a regular and well-known fixture in SA for cutting edge information and peer networking,” Ms Rhodes said.
“We have a great industry to celebrate in SA. Agribusiness employs one in five people in SA and the food and wine industries generate $18.6 billion in revenue for the state. So we are keen to further develop producers in those areas of policy that greatly impact farm businesses, but are not always front and centre in SA’s current event offering.”
Livestock SA chief executive officer Andrew Curtis says the two-way dialogue regarding policy issues at the 2017 conference set the tone for policy discussions well into 2018.
“We had the major state political parties make policy announcements at last year’s GROWING SA while Primary Producers SA announced it would join the National Farmers’ Federation, boosting SA agriculture’s representation at a national level,” Mr Curtis said.
“Together with GPSA, we are extremely proud to be bringing GROWING SA back in 2018 and we encourage producers, industry service providers, stakeholders, politicians and policy-makers from across SA to support the event.”
Details: http://www.growingsa.com.au
