Producers are flocking to register for ‘Back to the future’, the second national BPEX Knowledge Transfer conference. There are just weeks until the event on Tuesday 16th March 2010, to be held at the East of England Showground, Peterborough.
To secure a ticket, contact Sue
Wickham by e-mailing sue.wickham@bpex.org.uk
or calling 02476 478793 before Friday 5th March.
Speakers from both the northern and
southern hemispheres will lead the discussion, helping pig producers take stock,
look forward and focus on new opportunities for their
business.
Future gilt management, new
technologies, health and staffing will be tackled, along with the future of the
pork product itself. The speaker line-up is:
John Howard, Marketing director of
the Danish Bacon and Meat Council
Paul Hughes, of the South Australian
Research and Development Institute (SARDI)
Richard Hooper, Farm Manager,
Harper
Adams University College
Nigel Woolfenden BVSc MRCVS,
Bishopton Vet Group
Mark Hawe, AFBI, Northern
Ireland and Andrew Macrea, Northern Irish pig
farmer