2:00
- 6:00 pm
|
Conference
Registration
|
7:00
pm
|
Welcome -
Opening Remarks
Anne Forbes, Chair
Canadian Farm Business Management Council
|
7:15
pm
|
Challenges
and Opportunities for Agriculture in the New
Economy
David Watt, Financial Economist
BMO Nesbitt Burnss
|
9:00
pm
|
Farm Credit
Canada's Welcome Reception
|
| 7:00
am |
Breakfast
|
8:30
am
|
Opening
Remark and Introduction
John Ryan, President and CEO
Farm Credit Canada
|
9:00
am
|
Better Communication
in Family Business
John Fast, Executive Director
Centre for Family Business
|
10:00
am
|
Coffee Break
|
10:30
am
|
Better Communication
in Family Business (continued)
John Fast
|
12:00
pm
|
Lunch
|
1:15
pm
|
Family Farms
Faces with Globalization: The Co-op's Virtues
Ernest Desrosiers, Executive Director, Farm
Supply Division
Coopérative Fédérée
|
2:00
pm
|
The 2002 U.S.
Farm Bill What Impact and what Alternatives
for Canadian Agriculture?
Al Mussel, Senior Research Associate
George Morris Centre
|
2:45
pm
|
Coffee Break
|
3:15
pm
|
Best Managers
Practices
Manon Jolin & Jocelyn St-Laurent and Laurie
& Glenn Bowman
Winners of Canada's Outstanding Young Farmer
Program
Canada's Outstanding Young Farmer
|
6:00
pm
|
BDO Dunwoody's
Banquet
|
| 7:00
am |
Breakfast
|
8:30
am
|
Land
Use Issues and Conflict Resolution
Wayne Caldwell, Associate Professor
University of Guelph
|
9:15
am
|
Farm
Management Clubs
Bernard Belzile, Secretary General
Fédération des groupes conseils
agricoles du Québec
|
10:00
am
|
Coffee
Break
|
10:30
am
|
Access
to Capital
Greg Stewart, Vice President, National Operations
Farm Credit Canada
|
| 11:15
pm |
"Newthing"
- A Strategy for Innovation In Agriculture
Amy Lemay, Associate Director
Vista - The Canadian Centre for Science &
Technology Solutions
|
12:00
pm
|
Lunch
|
1:30
pm
|
Organic
Farming - Growth, Impacts, Lessons - What
do we want to learn?
Janine Gibson, President
Canadian Organic Growers
|
2:15
pm
|
Transitioning
for Success
Claude Bourgault, Director of Quebec Region
& Business Development
Rothsay/Laurenco
|
3:00
pm
|
Coffee
Break
|
3:30
pm
|
Wind
Energy - A New Crop for Canadian Farmers?
David Boileau, President
Seine River Power Inc.
Harmony Wind Energy
|
4:15
pm
|
End
of the conference
|
Funded in part by the
