Healthy Soils…..Healthy Profits

Healthy Soils…..Healthy Profits Event !

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Inspiring Resilience and Profitability for Future Farming.
Date: Nov 1st
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Location: Toi Toi Hastings

Cost: free
Event
1.00pm MC Robyn Wynn Lewis

1.05pm HBFFCT introduction and welcome
Phil Schofield - Chair Hawkes Bay Future Farming Trust

1.10pm Aligning the farming environment to market realities.
Mike Petersen – Chair Scales Corp and former Trade Envoy

1.30pm The importance of ruminant animals in the soil carbon cycle.
Peter Bruce Iri – Farming for the Climate Specialist, Author.

2.00pm An international perspective on soil carbon as a viable offset.
Steve Apfelbaum - Senior Ecologist Applied Ecological Institute Inc USA.

2.30pm Panel discussion - Making Money and working with nature
Panelist - John King – Holistic and Regenerative Farming Advisor
Panelist - Sam Hogg – Organic Farmer Manawatu
Panelist - Paul Smith – Soil Carbon Limited
Panelist - John Kamp – Regenerative Farmer Hawkes Bay
Group discussion with floor

3.30pm Break for tea and snack and networking

3.50pm Carbon Positive intensive cropping project
Dan Bloomer /Alex Dickson - LandWISE

4.10pm Resilience for Hawkes Bay Right Tree Right Place - Land for life
Michael Bassett Foss - Hawkes Bay Regional Council and Tim Sandall - Farm Forestry and the Environment

4.30pm A Government perspective.
James Palmer - CEO Ministry for the Environment

5.00pm Presentations finish and networking