As reported already in RURAL POST, the annual Jersey Farming Conference took place on 5 November.
All the speakers’ presentations were recorded on video, and these have now been have now been uploaded and are available to be viewed.
The link is: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuG8tWKTlYLQ9JEPe9cHjdNYhadMKKc8L
The conference was organised by Farm Jersey, and sponsored by Jersey Water and Islands Insurance.
The full programme is repeated here again: :
* Opening address by Senator Lyndon Farnham, Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture (delivered in his absence by John Vautier, assistant director / Economy)
* Geraint Richards, Head Forester, Duchy of Cornwall
* Professor Nicola Spence, Chief Plant Health Officer and Deputy Director Plant and Bee Health, Varieties & Seeds, Animal & Plant, Health & Welfare
* Jim Wilson, managing director ‘SoilEssentials’
* Philip Clarke, executive editor, Farmers Weekly
* Deputy Gregory Guida, Assistant Minister for the Environment
* Nigel Penlington, Nigel Penlington Consulting
* Piers Sangan MCMA, Director and Ecologist at Sangan Island Conservation
* Paul Hammett, National Farmers Union, National Specialist (water resources)
Thumb-nail biographies of the speakers can be found at the conference website: www.jerseyfarmingconference.com
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