Day 1, Tuesday 25 February
10.30-10.50 Opening address (Hall 1) WATCH LIVE / AGAIN
Minette Batters, President, NFU
10.50-11.50 Where next for British business? (Hall 1) WATCH LIVE / AGAIN
Speakers:
Dame Carolyn Fairbairn DBE, Director General, CBI
Minette Batters, President, NFU
Chaired by: Penny Haslam, Broadcaster and Author
11.50-12.35 How we are inspiring our nation’s schoolchildren (Hall 1) WATCH LIVE / AGAIN
Speakers:
Sally Spicer, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick
Joshua Payne, Education Manager, NFU
Jennie Devine, Education Officer, NFU
Abby Brady, Head Teacher, Ronald Ross Primary School
Brinder Bains, Deputy Head Teacher, Ronald Ross Primary School
Charlotte Hudson, Arable Manager, Hugh Lowe Farms
Alice Montgomerie, Student, Quest Professional
12.35-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Safeguarding Standards (Hall 1) WATCH LIVE / AGAIN
Speakers:
David Henig, Director UK Trade Policy Project
Professor Chris Elliott OBE, Institute for Global Food Security
Shaun Spiers, Executive Director, The Green Alliance Trust
Chaired by: Stuart Roberts, Vice President, NFU
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Commodity sessions
- Combinable crops: How can technology break through the barriers facing the arable sector?
Speakers:
Tom Bradshaw, Combinable Crops Board Chairman, NFU
Jack Watts, Chief Combinable Crops Adviser, NFU
Jonathan Gill, Mechatronics & UAV Researcher - National Centre for Precision Farming, Harper Adams University
Chaired by: Phil Jarvis, Combinable Crops Board Vice Chairman, NFU
- Dairy: Breaking down the consumer barriers – how we protect, promote and grow British dairy
Speakers:
Michael Oakes, Dairy Board Chairman, NFU
James Osman, Chief Dairy Adviser, NFU
Zoe Kavanagh, CEO, National Dairy Council of Ireland
Chaired by: Paul Tompkins, Dairy Board Vice Chairman, NFU - Horticulture and potatoes: The Horticultural Revolution: Realising the Ambition for Horticulture and Potatoes
Speakers:
Ali Capper, Horticulture and Potatoes Board Chairman, NFU
Joe McDonnell, Head of Insights, WGSN
Chaired by: Lee Abbey, Chief Horticulture and Potatoes Adviser, NFU - Livestock: Preparing for change
Speakers:
Richard Findlay, Livestock Board Chairman, NFU
Wyn Evans, Livestock Board Vice Chairman, NFU
Andrew Loftus, Livestock Board Appointee, NFU
Thomas Binns, Livestock Board Co-option and Hill & Upland Forum Chair
Will Jackson, Strategy Director Beef & Lamb, AHDB
Simon Hall and Richard Laverick, Livestock Information Program
Chaired by: John Royle, Chief Livestock Adviser, NFU Poultry: Vision and priorities for the egg and poultry meat sector
Speakers:
Thomas Wornham, Chairman, NFU National Poultry Board
Patrick Hook, Director of P.D. Hook (Group) Ltd
Veli Moluluo, Managing Director - Consumer Foods Division, Noble Foods
Michael Moniz, Client Executive, Kantar Worldpanel
Chaired by: Gary Ford, Chief Poultry Adviser, NFU- Sugar: Protecting UK sugar beet production
Speakers:Dirk de Lugt, Chair of Royal Cosun (the Dutch beet growers cooperative)
Paul Kenward, Managing Director, British Sugar
Michael Sly, NFU Sugar Board Chairman, NFU Sugar
Chaired by: Rachel Carrington, East Anglia Regional Director, NFU
18.45 Welcome drinks, regional awards and annual dinner (Hall 3)
Day 2, Wednesday 26 February
8.00 - 9.00am: Political Session (Hall 1) WATCH LIVE / AGAIN
The Rt Hon George Eustice MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chaired by: Minette Batters, President, NFU
9.15-10.45 Workshops
- Combatting rural crime: the impacts and the solutions
Speakers:
Dr Kreseda Smith, Rural Criminologist, Rural Security Research Group, Harper Adams University
Dr Richard Byrne, Senior Lecturer, Rural Security Research Group, Harper Adams University
Bill Dutton, Chief Superintendent – Head of local Policing, Cheshire Constabulary
Sam Durham, NFU Chief Land Management Adviser
Nina Winter, NFU Chief Legal Adviser
Robert Lockhart, NFU Environment Forum lead on fly-tipping
Chaired by: Dr Andrea Graham, NFU Head of Policy Services
- A new strategy for sustainable plant health solutions
Speakers:
Holly Yates, Deputy Director for Chemicals Pesticides and Hazardous Waste, Defra
Dr Paul Neve, Head of IPM and Crop Health, AHDB
Dr Chris Hartfield, Senior Regulatory Affairs Advisor, NFU
Tom Bradshaw, Combinable Crops Board Chairman, NFU
Ali Capper, Horticulture and Potatoes Board Chairman, NFU
Michael Sly, NFU Sugar Board Chairman, NFU Sugar
Chaired by: Dr Andrew Clark, Director of Policy, NFU
- Animal Health & Welfare: Protecting and improving our reputation
Speakers:
Cat McLaughlin, Chief Animal Health and Welfare Adviser, NFU
David Main, Professor of Production Animal Health and Welfare, Royal Agricultural University
Christine Middlemiss, UK Chief Veterinary Officer, Defra
Stuart Roberts, Vice-President, NFU
James Russell, Junior Vice President, British Veterinary Association
Chaired by: Phil Hambling, Head of Food & Farming, NFU
- Beyond the CAP: what will the future support landscape look like?
Speakers:
David Kennedy, Director General for Food, Farming, Animal and Plant Health, Defra
Richard Wordsworth, Senior BPS Adviser, NFU
Claire Robinson, Senior Countryside Adviser, NFU
Rohit Kaushish, Acting Chief Economics Adviser, NFU
Chaired by: Nick von Westenholz, Director of EU Exit and International Trade, NFU
- NFU Cymru: Welsh farming, new horizons
Speakers:
John Davies, President, NFU Cymru
Chris Hanks, Chair, Future Farmers for Wales
Katie Davies, Chair, YFC Wales
Delyth Robinson, NFU Cymru Next Generation Policy Forum
Will Evans, NFU Cymru Next Generation Policy Forum
Chaired by: John Mercer, Director, NFU Cymru
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.45 Climate change, the challenge of our time (Hall 1) WATCH LIVE / AGAIN
Speakers:
Professor Myles Allen, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair, Environment Agency
Phil Jarvis, NFU Environment Forum Chair
Chaired by: Guy Smith, Deputy President, NFU
12.45-13.00 NFU President's closing address (Hall 1) WATCH LIVE / AGAIN
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 AGM
See more of our coverage from NFU Conference 2020:
- NFU elects officeholder team
- NFU20: British farm standards must be the benchmark in future trade deals
- NFU20: Defra Secretary George Eustice talks flooding, ELMs and food standards
- NFU20: Business backs British standards
- NFU20: How we are inspiring our nation's schoolchildren
- NFU20: Leicestershire farmer honoured for grassroots commitment
- NFU20: Safeguarding our food and farming standards
- NFU20: Climate change is the challenge of our time
- NFU20: Putting IPM at the top of the agenda
- NFU20: Beyond the CAP - the future of farm support
- NFU20: Animal health and welfare - protecting and improving our reputation
- NFU20: Psychological impacts highlight the importance of combating rural crime
- NFU20: How can technology break through the barriers facing the arable sector?
- NFU20: An ambition for growth in horticulture
- NFU20: Learning lessons for the UK's sugar beet production
- NFU20: Livestock session busts myths on meat
- NFU20: Poultry's positive position to farm without barriers
- NFU20: Promoting, growing and protecting British dairy
In case you missed it, here are some easy ways to catch up with the highlights from both days at the ICC, Birmingham: