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Sessions and speakers include:

1. Dairy outlook and business resilience

Mr Chris Walkland (Dairy Market Analyst and Industry Commentator) - The Market Outlook: Why Resilience Matters More Than Ever!

Mr Jim Baird (Dairy Farmer) - The Power of Benchmarking.

2. Soil carbon and the road to net zero

Mr Seamus Murphy (SAC Consulting), Senior Environment Consultant - Understanding Soil Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Markets.

3. Meeting the biodiversity challenge

Joanna Lawrence (Arla Foods), Senior Manager Agriculture Sustainability - From the Ground Up.

Professor John Newbold (SRUC), Professor of Dairy Nutrition - What Does Grassland Species Diversity Mean for the Cow?

4. Future breeding and management strategies

Professor Mike Coffey (SRUC, Leader Animal Breeding and Genomics Team and Head of EGENES) - Big Cows are Bad: Future Selection Direction for the National Dairy Herd

Speaker TBC - Novel Technologies in Dairy Farming

A free event with lunch included. Registration from 9.30am onwards for a 10.00am start.

Funded by the University Innovation Fund from the Scottish Funding Council.

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