Latest Agenda for AgriYield 2010:

DRAFT AGENDA: THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN YIELD AND INPUT OPTIMISATION SUMMIT 2010

Optimise your agricultural inputs to maximise yield, efficiency, sustainability and investment.

• Expert tips to fast track your route to investment: Practical steps to make your operation attractive to investors.
• Take advantage of Precision Technology: Innovative ways to make precision techniques and technologies increase yield and reduce waste.
• Cutting edge advances in seeds, fertilisers and agrochemicals: Unmissable changes that will revolutionise your crops.  
• Harness your FYM, Slurry and fertilisers: Proven techniques to ensure that your fields work for you.
• Understand Emerging Markets: Understand how operators in South America and Africa have increased their margins and apply this experience to amplify your own profits.
• Essential information for the future: Safeguard your crops from climate change and disease to ensure growth and profitability.

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DAY ONE: 25th November 2010

Chairman’s Welcoming Speech

Mark Horn, El Area

SECTION 1: YOUR ROADMAP TO OBTAIN INVESTMENT

Expert Help to Formulate your Investment Strategy:

• Find out how important sustainability is to investment to ensure that you maintain your competitive edge.
• How to evaluate the trend towards traceability with up-to-date analysis that will allow you to formulate your future business plans effectively.
• Understand key market trends and how market pressures will affect your operation.

Guy Ellena, Director, Regional Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Social Services, The International Finance Corporation

SECTION 2: SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS

How to Achieve Sustainability and Ensure Food Security:

• Understand the key practical steps needed in order to move your produce towards sustainability.
• Don’t jeopardise future yield understand the best techniques to avoid soil damage.
• Discover the role that plant protection and pesticides can play in creating an environmentally sustainable operation.

Euros Jones, Director of Regulatory Affairs, ECPA

Food vs. Fuel – Fact or Fiction?

• Discover up-to-date research on integrated food energy systems
• Find out how to select the right land for biofuel crops
• How to implement performance indicators on good practice and related policies as a complement to impact indicators regarding biofuel vs. food security concerns

Olivier DuBois, Senior Officer NRCB (Climate Change and Bioenergy Unit), FAO

Case Study – Brazilian Biofuels:

• Gain an exclusive insight into the implementation and development of Biofuels in Brazil.
• Discover the strategies employed by the world’s bioethanol pioneer.
• Find out about new biofuels matrixes and Electricity co-generation using biofuels matrixes residues.

Prof. Rodrigo Alexandre Gomes de Oliveira, M.Sc, Federal University at Tocantins State

Case Study – Managing the Climatic Risks of Production in Eastern Europe:

• Listen to a leading international operator talk about the approach taken to cultivation technique both in the short and long term.
• Discover how rotation and variety can lower risk.
• Hear what competes for water and how to reduce that competition.

Simon Boughton, Head of Agriculture, Trigon Agri

Roundtable Discussion:

A detailed description of energy saving efficiencies in new and existing grain drying facilities which will help you to avoid the potential pitfalls and costs of using old machinery.

Per Larsson, CEO, Tornum AB

SECTION 3: CROP MIX SUGGESTIONS AND NEW SEED DEVELOPMENTS

A Panoramic View of GM Legislation Changes and its Agricultural Impact:

• After the European Comission's July change in its approach to GM crops hear a detailed analysis of the proposal with a focus on the ramifications or new possibilities opened up to your fields.
• Find out about adventitious GM presence and low level presence in seed, food and feed in conjunction with new traceability and labelling obligations.
• Learn about regulations concerning the coexistence of GM and non-GM production and voluntary standards and GM free regions.

Garlich von Essen, Secretary General, The European Seed Association

Sustainable Agriculture - working towards doubling yields:

• Large GM Manufacturing companies project that they will be able to double crop yield by 2015; find out how this will reverberate across your entire operation.
• Enable yourself to plan ahead for this massive change through an in-depth discussion of the machinery and technology that you need to put in place.
• Find out how your input use will have to change to accommodate these new crops and equip yourself and your business for the future.

Jonathan Ramsay, Public and Industry Affairs Lead for the EMEA region, Monsanto

Growing more from less – How Modern Technology Enables Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

• Find out the newest research into climate change and how it might provoke potential new diseases and threats to your crops.
• Hear about developments at the forefront of Agrochemical technologies that will give you the weapons to defend and maximise your crops.
• Take away practical methods to safeguard your crops against climate change.

Karsten Neuffer, Global Head of Cereals, Syngenta

End of day one open discussion and conclusions:

• Karsten Neuffer, Global Head of Cereals, Syngenta
• Jonathan Ramsay, Public and Industry Affairs Lead for the EMEA region, Monsanto
• Olivier DuBois, Senior Officer NRCB (Climate Change and Bioenergy Unit), FAO
• Euros Jones, Director of Regulatory Affairs, ECPA
• Guy Ellena, Director, Regional Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Social Services, The International Finance Corporation

NETWORKING DRINKS

If you are interested in any of the topics discussed make sure that you reserve your seat today.

I believe that new innovations and smart integration of technologies allows us to advance yields – and in a sustainable way. This is especially true for the CEE region with its vast potential to meet its ambitions to be a key contributor to global food security. - Karsten Neuffer, Global Head of Cereals, Syngenta

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DAY TWO: 26th November 2010

Chairman’s Opening Remarks

SECTION 4: EXPLORE AND DEVELOP YOUR TECHNOLOGY AND PRECISION TECHNIQUES

Technology and Tractors – A Beautiful Relationship:

• Discover how viable Controlled Traffic Farming techniques are to apply to your fields.
• Take away real figures that detail initial investment costs and potential returns that could be a deciding factor in investment choices in the coming year.
• Find out how effective Auto Steer and CTF systems are in working to reduce fuel costs and slow the rate of soil damage.
• Expert tips that will ease the integration process of Auto Steer and CTF into your farm taking into account primary outlay costs.

Hubertus M. Mühlhäuser, Senior Vice President Strategy & Integration, General Manager Eastern Europe & Asia, AGCO

Best Tilling Practices:

• Professional tips that will help you to minimise soil erosion whilst maximising yield
• Uncover the effect of no-till practices on buffering weather extremes and how to build a solid no-till system that could considerably lessen fuel costs.
• Up-to-date research on fuel efficient engines that will lower the environmental impact of your farm and reduce energy costs.

Michael Horsch, MD, Horsch

Benefit from a Comprehensive Precision Farming Seminar:

• What technology is there? Do you know how your technology fits together?
• An expert outline which will enable you to ensure that you maintain definitive control over your farm’s resources.
• Understand the power of harnessing a fully integrated technology system and tracking techniques that will make it even easier to operate.

Ton van der Voort van der. Kley, Managing Director, Kverneland Group

Encounter New Advances in Precision Technology:

• Find out the best farming practices designed to ensure maximum yield and improve soil structure.

• Discover cutting edge advances in onsite soil sampling that will make it even easier for you to ensure that you effectively apply fertilizers and agrochemicals.
• Real data that will allow you to evaluate and offset technological investment against productivity.

Craig Lipawsky, International Product Manager International Precision Farming and Guidance, CNH

Understand Satellite Electromagnetic Radiation:

• Proven strategies to use Satellite Electromagnetic Radiation so that you can monitor your fields and inputs.
• Identify how to timetable Satellite imaging into your crop cycle so that you can maximise its potential.

Frans Bastiaanssen, Founder and Owner, Basfood

R&D Fertilizer Developments:

• Take away information about new fertilizer developments which will enable you to remain at the forefront of agriculture.
• Practical information on nano and micro fertilizers to incorporate into your business strategy.
• Professional tips to maximise your fertilizer usage and reduce inefficiencies and waste-related costs.

Wolfgang Hofmair, Marketing Manager Fertilizer, Borealis Agrolinz Melamine GmbH

• A simple guide to ensure that your work force is getting the most out of your machinery and vice versa.
• Innovative strategies to maintain an influx of intelligent young professionals into your business.
• Find out how to harness your workforce and make your HR investment pay dividends.

Ãœlo Adamson, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Trigon Agri

A comprehensive look at Russia’s short and medium-term grain production & export perspectives:

• Benefit from a detailed account of Russian grain Supply and Demand balance and how you will be affected.
• Discover the lasting export repercussions of the Russian export ban and predictions of the market’s future for 2011 and 2012.
• Gain an expert insight when and whether Russia will become again a key exporter in the region.

Andrey Sizov Jr., Managing Director, Sovecon

We need more and more food on yearly/daily bases. Definitely, this part of the world has the necessary ingredients to do very good business in agriculture and feed the world. - Vitaliy Skotsyk, CEO, Landkom

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