NEXT month Beechworth will be hosting the Farming Carbon Conference 2023 at the George Kerferd Hotel on Tuesday, February 28, between 9.30am and 4.30pm.
The conference will provide insights into a successful carbon farming program, including available opportunities, processes required, issues and pitfalls.
The conference is supported by North East Catchment Management Authority (CMA) with funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program.
Among the speakers already secured for the event are Julia Waite, MLA; Professor Richard Eckard, Melbourne University; Julian Carroll, regional chair of the Southern Australian Livestock Research Council (SALRC) and principal at Stellar Livestock; Jane Carney from Farmers for Climate Action; Sam Henty, Agriculture Victoria; Jim Shovelton, board member of Gecko CLaN; Alison Kelly, Agriculture Victoria; Dr Cassandra Schefe, AgriSci; and Sue Briggs, CSBP Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory.
Additional speakers will be announced in the lead–up to the event.
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Regional agricultural landcare facilitator with North East CMA, Lachlan Campbell, said the Farming Carbon 2023 Conference aims to support land managers, agriculture industry groups, landcare participants, and industry staff in North East Victoria in building their knowledge and understanding of carbon farming systems.
"Among our speakers, Professor Richard Eckard will be examining emerging imperatives for low emissions food production," Mr Campbell said.
"Dr Cassandra Schefe will be discussing the importance of healthy soil in building soil carbon; and Jim Shovelton will be sharing the outcomes of a regional carbon project in the grazing industry."
Registrations for the conference are now open at https://events.humanitix.com/farming–carbon.
Tickets are $20 including a booking fee.
