UFU, CAFRE and The Dairy Council NI will be hosting an event on Labour Sustainability on Tuesday 5th December 2023 from 10:30am – 3:00pm in the Millbrook Lodge Hotel, Ballynahinch
This conference will feature innovative and inspiring sessions that will elevate your understanding of trends and technologies relevant to your farm. Regardless of whether you’re a sole operator or a manager of people, the focus will be on development of skills and understanding required to meet the workload requirements of your business.
Moving forward, future sustainable dairy businesses must be informed, resilient, proactive and efficient. This conference aims to deliver on placing you as the dairy farmer in a position to meet the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow.
This conference is aimed at you!
The event will focus on improving labour productivity from an evolving and diverse workforce, highlighting technologies available as well as considering people and time management on farm. The event will feature CAFRE’s Anna Truesdale on a recent labour study conducted in Co Down, and key-note specialists including, Nollaig Heffernan of Heffernan Consultancy Ltd, Tom Rawson of Evolution Farming Ltd. and Dr Rebecca Orr a practicing Academic GP Registrar. Together they will provide an insight into people management, efficient and sustainable farming systems and looking after the farms number one asset – the farmer.
Programme
| 10.30am – 11am – Tea and coffee |
| 11.00am – 11.15am – Introduction Christopher Osborne, Senior Policy Officer UFU |
| 11.15am – 11.30am – The Co. Down labour study results Anna Truesdale, CAFRE Dairy Adviser |
| 11.30am – 12.15pm – Motivating and managing people. Nollaig Heffernan, Independent Consultant |
| 12.30pm – 1pm – Light lunch |
| 1pm – 1.30pm – Building a dairy business around people Tom Rawson, CEO Evolution Farming Co. |
| 1.30pm – 2pm – Investing in your personnel well being Dr Rebecca Orr, Academic Rural GP |
| 2pm – 2.15pm – Close Ian Stevenson – CEO of the Dairy Council |