Land to Market Conference 29-31 March 2021, Albury NSW David Farley, Matrix Commodities David Farley is an accomplished Executive Leader, Chairman and CEO with a life-long, global career in agribusiness. David achieved a portfolio of success leading publicly listed and private organisations with revenues in the hundreds of millions through significant growth, transformation and change. Leveraging a broad knowledge base of soft commodity trading, international investment, distribution network design and optimisation and co-operative sales and marketing structures David is a passionate agricultural policy advocate and global markets, technology and innovation enthusiast, a recognised thought leader, David holds strong networks and relationships with institutional agricultural fund investors (USA, UK and Australia), government stakeholders, and capital markets and across the global agribusiness sector. Regenerative Agriculture, Better Food and Health The USA spends ~$1.5T annually on food and $1.9T on healthcare related to poor nutrition (comparison - total USA defence budget is $750b). The current food system ended starvation, but created a obesity epidemic as cheap ultra-processed food increased diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Entrepreneurs can solve real problems by attracting investment and personal capital to redirect into a better food future, marketing sustainable agricultural production, winning supermarket shelf space, changing the cost of health insurance, and securing proven sustainable agricultural practices into agricultural property asset valuation models.

Land to Market Conference 29-31 March 2021, Albury NSW Allan Savory, Savory Institute Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa, pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world's grassland ecosystems and worked with managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions. In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, and in 2009, with a group of colleagues, they co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado, building up a network of innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with Holistic Management training and implementation support. Savory's book, Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment (Island Press, 2016), describes efforts to find workable solutions to overcoming many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today. In 2003, he received Australia's International Banksia Award, in 2010 Savory and the Africa Centre received the Buckminster Fuller Institute's Challenge award, for work that has 'significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems,' and in 2015 he received the Mary G. Enig Integrity in Science Award. A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has been voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. Reductionist Thinking, Holistic Management and Regenerative Agriculture [via video link] No group of farmers in the world has weathered droughts, fires, bad agricultural policies and financial hard times better than those beginning to manage holistically. No surprise, because almost all that ails us is linked to one underlying cause — reductionist management. Join us in learning from people who are leading the way to a new and truly regenerative agriculture.

Land to Market Conference 29-31 March 2021, Albury NSW Lyn Sykes Lyn has been a leader in the traditionally male world of agriculture, and for more than three decades she has made a significant contribution to improving skills relating to communication and succession. Lyn is recognised as the pioneer of a family-focused approach to succession planning, centered on a facilitated family meeting clarifying the visions and goals of each member in order to develop a shared way forward. At the height of this work she was facilitating in excess of 100 family meetings a year in all states. Lyn was the independent chair of the Environmental Flows Group in the Macquarie River from its inception until 2013. She has had considerable involvement in leadership, communication and conflict resolution workshops, and believes when groups work cooperatively and harness the strengths of these differences great things are possible. Social Consequences – Why Farmers Matter Why people on farms matter, especially how they matter in relationships, both business and personal. The potential impact people on farms can have on sustainability, succession gender and the ability to manage any significant change. What the downsides of loving your land might be, particularly in difficult times.

Land to Market Conference 29-31 March 2021, Albury NSW Walter Jehne, Regenerate Earth Walter Jehne is an internationally recognized soil microbiologist and innovation strategist. He has immense field and research experience in soils, grasslands, agriculture and forests at local, national (CSIRO and Science Adviser to Australia's National Soil Advocate), international (UN) level. Walter's specialisation is the role of soil microbes' symbiotic processes in the ecology of diseases, plant health, nutrient and waste cycling, soil pedogenesis and the regeneration of bio-systems. Decades of research have made him expert in plant root ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin, and soil carbon formation. He also has worked on biology's enormous influences in hydrological cycles, weather patterns, regional and global cooling, and cloud formation and rain precipitation. Recent work has focused on commercializing leading bio-innovations which will urgently help restore agro-ecosystems and urban agriculture and ecologies. Walter is determined to advance the practical verification, application and extension of these innovations, including for cities and their supply chains, to sustain the current 8 billion and projected 10 billion people by mid-century. Grazing Ecologies in Regenerating Australia's Natural Capital and Safe Future Australia is aridifying, degrading and burning dangerously, and unless addressed this decade we risk further loss of rangelands and forests. We need new visions, values and practical solutions to secure our landscapes and future, and to recognize that our economy and society depends on these bio-systems, their resilience, buffering, cooling, biodiversity and bio-productivity. We must rehydrate landscapes by ensuring rain infiltrates into healthy soils and our 'in-soil reservoirs' to sustain the longevity of plant growth and regional cooling. We can only do this by regenerating the Earth's soil carbon sponge, with perennial pastures and grazing ecologies that re-create our former deep 'mould' soils that retain and enable plants to use most raindrops; by extending the vision and practices of innovative farmers bio-sequestering up to 10 tons of carbon per hectare per annum back into their soils, and by extending 'Regenerate Australia' to retain 1 million Giga litres of extra rainwater, protected from evaporation and at fraction of the cost of dry dams. We only have this decade before dangerous extremes limit our last chances to do this.

Land to Market Conference 29-31 March 2021, Albury NSW Brian Wehlburg, Inside Outside Management No-one is more passionate or has done more to educate people about Holistic Management and Regenerative Ag' in Australia. From Zimbabwe, Brian Wehlburg migrated to Australia in 2001. His initial experience as an educator was gained as an instructor with the Army Parachute School, then he obtained an agricultural diploma. After two years as a farm manager he started his own agricultural enterprise in 1981, growing crops for export, breeding cattle and operating a safari/wildlife conservancy. An introductory Holistic Management course in 1995 with Allan Savory inspired Brian to use grazing as a tool to improve the environment, with resulting significant pasture improvement and regeneration of water seeps. In 1998 he completed the Holistic Management Educator's course and started teaching. Brian has also worked as a pasture/cattle manager, a grazing consultant, and managed a property in New South Wales. He enjoys sharing his passion for environmental improvement and grazing management. Holistic Management Approaches to Regenerative Agriculture Creating a clear understanding of the differences between DIRECTION and DIRECTIONS as each of us head into uncharted waters: how Holistic Management and the creation and use of a Holistic Context is of great benefit as we shift the agricultural paradigm and support the revolution towards Regenerative Agriculture. As this shift in thinking occurs there will be an explosion of new methods, ideas, techniques and technology to support the new agriculture. The power of having a Holistic Context to enable you to work out which choices are right for you, your business and your family through this constantly changing scenario will be enormous. Continual monitoring towards your Holistic Context will ensure that you are moving in the right direction as things change and evolve.