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Regional Food Value-Add 07 conference
My day job at the National Food Industry Strategy crosses with my
Regional Food agenda on lots of occasions (which is why I'm there, despite an
ambivalence to a lot of the big business 'functional foods'/ processed food
things they're involved with. In March NFIS Ltd. sponsored a conference for over
100 delegates invited from food groups, govt. departments and regional
producers. It was a real buzz and because I was helping organise, I got close
and talked with some of the speakers.
I've been putting up some articles and content on the valueadd section of the
NFIS website which
you may be interested in. We video-taped the whole conference and those speakers are
online, synchronised with their PowerPoint presentations. (In a nifty software
application that Regional Food's TV guy
Greg Sneddon is promoting)
If you've got time, and you're a regional producer
wanting to move into higher value products, it's worth going through them. And
you might like to look at
 some of the follow up stories I'm finishing off for
the site.
Fred Harden 25 April 07
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 Farming
Small Areas magazine
If you don't get
The Land,
our big country newspaper in NSW, you wouldn't have seen
their regular bi-monthly(?) insert magazine Farming Small
Areas. While its content is earnest and covers country
producer stories like we do, the layout is lousy, the
pictures pedestrian. It could be heaps better.
In the recent April/May issue there's an article on Alan and Lisette Snaith's
Galloway beef business. They invited us to dinner on New Year's Eve and I did a
photo diary piece here.
We get a mix of newspapers that drives our newsagent nuts each time a new staff
member has to do deliveries. We get The Land, Weekly Times, and the state papers
on the day their food inserts appear, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Courier
Mail, Advertiser, Canberra Times etc. Being in the country they can arrive a day
or so later than the city so what lands in the driveway is always a surprise.
Thursday's bundle hits with a thud with The Land and The Australian (the Media
section).
There's a trade expo that hinges around Farming Small Areas which is really
popular. The next one is 9-10 November at the Hawkesbury Showground in Richmond
(on the edge of Sydney).
Fred Harden 25 April 07 >
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