2025 PROGRAM
Check out the program below!
Pre-Event
WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
| 6:00pm |
Meet & Greet - thanks to Auctions PlusLocation: The Club Hotel, Roma A casual evening for delegates to network prior to the forum. Early lanyard collection. |
Day one
THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
| 6:30am |
Registrations and Breakfast thanks to Maranoa Regional CouncilLocation: Roma Saleyards |
| 7:30am | Welcome, Housekeeping and Introductions |
| 7:35am | Carcass breakdown
Butcher - Rod Nothling Speakers - Peter McGilchrist, Sophie Cooper |
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9:00am |
Travel to Roma Cultural Centre |
| 9:10am |
Morning Tea - thanks to Virbac |
| 9:45am MC Welcome / YBPF Chair Address | |
| 10:05am
12:00pm |
Marcus Oldham Workshop - David Cornish, Nic Howard - Beef, Bucks and Better Decisions
Lunch - thanks to The Club Hotel |
| 12:40pm | GOLD Sponsor Address - Australian Retirement Trust |
| 12:50pm | Speaker - Darcy McKenzie - So This Is Your First Rodeo? (ABL - Advancing Beef Leaders) |
| 1:00pm
1:40pm |
Speaker - Richard Rains - The Global Stage: Lessons from a Life of Exporting Beef
Sponsor Standup |
| 2:05pm |
Afternoon Tea - thanks to Copley Pastoral |
| 2:30pm
2:40pm
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GOLD Sponsor Address - Teys
Perceptions of the Beef Industry - Beef Central - Eric Barker, Lydia Burton, Peta Carige |
| 3:40pm
3:50pm |
Stand up and stretch the legs!Speaker - Jimmy Bellingham |
| 4:15pm
4:20pm
4:35pm |
Skin Checks, thanks to the Rabobank Client Council
Lachlan Hughes Foundation - Tim Lee - Regeneration of Soil and Self Royal Flying Doctors Service - with Sam Fryer & surprise guest |
| 5:05pm |
Closing Comments, Cocktail Dinner Details |
| 6.30pm
10.30pm |
YBPF Cocktail Party thanks to Teys & Charity Auction thanks to EldersLocation: Roma Saleyards Dress Code: Cocktail |
Day two
FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
| 7:30am
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Breakfast - thanks to Maranoa Regional CouncilLocation: Cultural Centre, Roma |
| 8:00am |
Forum Doors Open |
| 8.30am | GOLD Sponsor Address - Mort & Co |
| 8:40am | Speaker - Rob McGavin |
| 9:20am | GOLD Sponsor Address - Origin |
| 9:30am | Speaker - Aline Teixeira, interviewed by Sam Parish |
| 10:00am |
Morning Tea thanks to RCS |
| 10:30am Speaker - Carl & Judi Bain | |
| 11:05am | Speaker - James Copley |
| 11:25pm
11:35pm |
Speaker - Rhonda Toms-Morgan
Speaker - Roger Hill |
| 12:10pm |
Lunch - thanks to Roma Gas Supplies |
| 12:55pm | Tim Emery Busary |
| 1:05pm | Speaker - Teek Carmichael |
| 1:35pm | Speaker - Harry Evans, Bush AgriBusiness |
| 1:55pm | Speaker - Caitlyn Barton |
| 2:20pm |
afternoon tea - thanks to TBA |
| 2:40pm
2:55pm |
Speaker - Will Jones, Outback Poly Products
Pathways in Ag101 - with Grace Griffiths, Nick Henderson, Nathan McPhee |
| 3:45pm | Wrap up + thanks |
| 3:55pm |
forum closes |