AFBMNetwork National Conferences
2006 AFBMNetwork Conference "Growing the Business:
Setting the Focus for Tomorrow"
The 2006 AFBMNetwork Conference will be hosted by
Marcus Oldham College in Geelong VIC.
The theme of the Conference will be related to issues
of farming today for the future of farming.
It promises will be an outstanding event where farmers, agribusiness
managers, professional business consultants, agricultural extension
officers, agricultural academics and agricultural researchers will
meet to network and share experiences while taking home new messages.
The success and good memories of the 2004 Conference are a guarantee
that the 2006 Conference will meet these expectations.
The Convenor of the Conference is Mr Sam
Inglis.
His email address is as follows: inglis@marcusoldham.vic.edu.au
- Please feel free to post an email message to Sam for information
about the Conference
2004 AFBMNetwork Conference "Profit in an
Uncertain Environment"
The 2004 AFBMNetwork Conference "Profit
in an Uncertain Environment" was held on 5th
- 7th December 2004 in Orange NSW 2800, Australia. One hundred and
fifty two AFBMNetwork members from Australia and New Zealand participated
of a most successful event.
The 2004 Conference archive contains the following
folders:
2002 National Farm Management Workshop:
"Foreshadowing the Creation of AFBMNetwork"
The 2002 National Farm Management Workshop held at
the Orange University Campus brought by invitation seventy two distinguished
farmers, researchers, academics, agribusiness managers, farm business
consultants and extension officers to discuss the future of farm
management in Australia.
This workshop was sponsored by The University of Sydney
during its Sesquicentenary celebrations.
Among other achievements the Workshop participants
came out with the idea of strengthening the educational model
that integrates business management skills with agricultural technology
skills (i.e. agronomy and/or sustainable agriculture and animal
science and/or animal production). This model was considered
by the Workshop participants as one of the most efficient models
to prepare the agricultural professional within a holistic and/or
systematic vision. Since this model is losing interest by universities
around Australia, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Rural Management
took the leadership bringing on board the support of representatives
from Curtin University - Muresk Institute, Marcus Oldham College
and The University of Melbourne - Institute of Land and Food Resources
to foreshadow the creation of an organisation that would serve as
an umbrella to bring the professional leading farmers of Australia
together with the other agricultural organisational professionals
to continue discussing better educational, research, consultancy
and extension opportunities for the primary sector.
The discussion papers distributed to the Workshop
participants can be accessed below:
- Discussion Papers from 2002 Farm Management Workshop
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