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Specialist Seminars at NBA Beef Expo 2017
NBA Beef Expo 2017 seminars provide NBA with a huge opportunity to further raise its profile and positioning by
helping visitors to improve their enterprise’s profitability and sustainability by careful selection of topics. They offer
advice, information and thought provoking ideas, the majority of which can be taken home and implemented the
following day. And they’re all free of charge.
9.30am ORGANICS
Four short talks highlighting the benefits of
adopting an organic system on farm. The
session will be chaired by Peter Jones of the
Organic Livestock Marketing Co-operative and
will conclude with a Q&A session.
- Liz Bowles, Head of Farming, The Soil
Association Topic: The Benefits of Beef
Production on Organic Arable Farms
- Matt Johnson, Organic Beef & Sheep Farmer
and Butcher Topic: Producing Organic Beef
and Running a Butchers Shop
- Tim Leigh, OLMC Finished Stock Marketing
Manager Topic: Marketing Cattle to Maximise
Returns
- Wayne Copp, Organic Producer Topic:
Farming North Devon Cattle
11.00am HEALTH
Three topical health seminars, highlighting key
health issues within the industry; BVD,
Cryptosporidium and Chronic Liver Fluke, and
the latest research available to help overcome
such issues on a herd basis and as an industry.
- Boehringer Ingelheim Topic: Why tag dead
calves? Insights from the National BVD Survey
2017
- Dr Frank Katzer, Senior Scientist at Moredun
Foundation Topic: Cryptosporidium in Cattle
- Steve Sheridan, Merial Vets, speaking on Liver
Fluke
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12.30pm FINISHER FORUM
An exciting forum encompassing all aspects of
finisher production from policy to production
efficiencies.
- Dr.Jamie-Leigh Douglas, Technical Support
manager, AB Vista Nutrition Topic: Improving
efficiencies to Champion Profitability
- Bill Harper, Trustee Director of the NBA Topic:
Policy changes for Finisher Units
- Adam Quinney, AHDB, speaking on future
beef supply
14.00pm BREEDING SEMINAR
A forward thinking seminar looking into the
future of cattle breeding.
- Mark Smith, Genus Beef Genetics
- Alison Glasgow, Limousin Cattle Society
Topic: Limousin Breeding Improvement Adding
Value for Commercial Producers
15.15pm INTEGRATED BEEF SUPPLY
Three industry leading speakers presenting the
benefits of an integrated beef system followed
by a Q&A session.
- Matt Nightingale, CEO of Meadow Quality
- John Bell, CEO of Berryfields Farm and
Berrystock Feeds
- Dr Amiee Hafla, Beef Nutritionist, AGRI-KING
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May 2017 | Farming Monthly | 47