Armidale Business Breakfast – Seizing Opportunities in Agriculture
This event is now FULLY BOOKED. Please contact our office to be added to a waitlist.
Precision Pastures is delighted to host a business breakfast to celebrate National Ag Day in November.
Gather with members of the agricultural and business community at Tattersalls Hotel and hear from local agribusiness leaders on how they are seizing opportunities in agriculture.
Industry insights: Michael Crowley, Managing Director of Meat and Livestock Australia.
Keynote presentation and Q&A: Bert Glover, Founder and CEO USA, Impact Ag Partners.
The morning will also reveal key findings from Precision Pastures’ Research and Development project, co-funded by MLA: ‘Grazing System Impact on Livestock Productivity, Soil Moisture, and Soil Organic Carbon’, a five-year study culminating in November 2024.
The event is free-of-charge and is strictly invite-only. Registration essential.
This is event is now fully booked. Please contact the office for more information on our waitlist.
Speaker Information
Bert Glover
Founder and CEO USA, Impact Ag Partners
As Impact Ag Partners’ founder, and CEO of our US operations, Bert leads the firm’s investment in agriculture as a nature and climate solution across North America. With 30 years’ experience in agricultural production and investment at scale, Bert brings a unique and highly valued skillset to Impact Ag’s clients – unlocking the transition to nature-based solutions where planet and profits thrive. Co-founder of agricultural management software company, Maia Technology, Bert champions innovation, chairing InAg. tech and serving as a board director for six agricultural businesses in Australia and the USA.
Michael Crowley
Managing Director, Meat and Livestock Australia
Michael brings over 20 years’ experience within the Australian Red Meat Industry holding a range of commercial positions in the meat & livestock industry including livestock procurement, processing, plant quality assurance, supply chain management, sales and marketing. Michael operated his own business marketing livestock, running beef processing for branded beef exporters and held his own meat export license. His family operate a stud and commercial beef cattle company in Northern New South Wales, Barraba.
Michael originally joined MLA in 2009 where he managed the Meat Standards Australia program. In 2012 he moved with his family to Brussels taking on the role of International Business Manager for EU and Russia with MLA. He returned from Brussels in 2015 as the Program Manager – Meat Standards Australia and joined MLA’s Executive Team in 2016 where he was the General Manager Research, Development and Adoption until the end of 2022. This business unit was responsible for investments in RD&A across the supply chain including livestock genetics, on farm productivity, eating quality, sustainability innovation, automation, objective measurement, market access science and product innovation. He is managing director of Meat & Livestock Australia, Chair of MLA Donor Company
Limited and Red Meat Traceability Systems.