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Organiser
Euan Emslie
Beef Expo 2008,
3 Briar Close,
Newport,
Brough,
East Yorkshire HU15 2QY
Tel: 01430 441870
Fax: 01430 448432
Mobile: 07718 908523
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Top Speakers Lined Up for Beef Expo Conference and Dinner10/04/08
Three leading meat industry figures have accepted the invitation of the
National Beef Association to speak at the Beef Expo 2008 conference at
Perth on Tuesday, May 20.
The conference, sponsored by Quality Meat Scotland, will be held at Perth
Agricultural Centre on the eve of Beef Expo which will be held at the same
venue the following day, Wednesday, May 21, and is expected to attract
thousands of beef farmers from all over the UK and Ireland as well as several
other European countries. Major sponsor of Beef Expo 2008 is Lloyds TSB
Agriculture.
Visitors will also have the opportunity of viewing two Perthshire
beef farms on the morning of the conference which commences at 4.00 p.m. and
will be followed by the pre-event dinner that evening in Dewar’s
Centre, Perth.
The conference will adopt the Beef Expo theme of “Engage With Beef – Sustainable
Systems” and the speakers are Donald Biggar, chairman of Quality
Meat Scotland, Dr Mike Tempest, technical director of the Livestock and
Meat Commission, Northern Ireland, and Brian Pack, chief executive of ANM
Group Ltd. The conference will be chaired by David Leggat, executive chairman
of United Auctions, operators of Perth Agricultural Centre.
“This is a formidable line-up of speakers who are all well-known
for their forthright views on the beef industry,” said Beef Expo
organising committee chairman, Randal Wilson. “We as beef producers
are hopefully entering a new era of renewed optimism and we our looking
to our speakers to point the way towards a sustainable and profitable beef
industry in the future.”
Donald Biggar has been chairman of QMS for more than two years and was
recently confirmed as chairman for the next three years following QMS’s
move from an industry-owned company to public body wholly accountable to
Scottish Ministers. He is a commercial beef producer and successful breeder
of pedigree Aberdeen-Angus and Beef Shorthorn cattle at Chapelton and The
Grange, Castle Douglas, and also a director of SAC.
Mike Tempest joined LMC in 1996 as agricultural manager but his role has
expanded to technical director with responsibility for the provision of
technical information and services to the beef and sheep industries in
Northern Ireland. He has been instrumental in developing a sustainable
strategy for the NI beef and sheep sectors following a critical review
carried out by the NI Red Meat Task Force. A key objective is to assist
the NI beef and sheep industry to become profitable in a free market.
As chief executive of the farmer-owned business, ANM Group, since 1990,
Brian Pack is responsible for a £192 million throughput business
which includes Aberdeen and Northern Marts, Scotch Premier Meat Ltd and
Yorkshire Premier Meat Ltd. He was previously chief executive of dairy
company, Mackie’s, and an economist with the old North of Scotland
College of Agriculture (now part of SAC). He is also chairman of the Rowett
Research Institute.
The pre-event dinner will feature beef kindly donated by Scotbeef Ltd,
Bridge of Allan, is expected to attract more than 400 farmers and industry
representatives. The pre-dinner reception will be hosted by Provost John
Hulbert of Perth and Kinross Council and there will be a display of Highland
dancing by pupils from the Jean Robertson School of Dancing, with well
known piper Willie Anderson. Light-hearted entertainment will be provided
by after-dinner speaker, John Htet Khin.
Bookings for the conference and dinner, and also for the farm visits to
Ballathie Estate, Kinclaven, Stanley, and Incheoch, Alyth, must be made
in advance and pre-paid to the event organiser, Euan Emslie, Beef Expo
2008, 3 Briar Close, Newport, Brough, East Yorkshire. HU15 2QY. Tel: 01430
441870. Fax: 01430 448432. Mob: 07718 908523. E-mail: info@beef2008.co.uk
Cost for the conference only is £5 + VAT, conference and dinner £33.19
+ VAT and farm tour £12 + VAT (including coach hire and packed lunch). |
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