North Island Deer Tech Expo and Deer Farmers' Workshop - Adding Value

Welcome - Please complete ONE form for EACH person attending.

This year, Central Regions DFA and Deer Industry NZ are bringing you a combined Deer Industry Tech Expo and National Advance Party and Deer Farmers workshop open to all farmers wtih deer.

The theme of this year's workshop is Adding Value. From digital technologies to added value timbers, understanding what the market loves about our product, business diversification and measuring efficiencies and more. We hope you will find new technologies, ideas and pearls of wisdom that will help add value to your business.

We also want to add value to our exhibitors and relationships so we are working to maximise interaction between our exhibitors and farmers. The event will be held in one hall, joint sessions be in the main room for all to join in and exhibitors are invited to attend workshops and the evening meal. 

This form includes:

• Your contact details
• Choice of workshops you would like to attend
• Exhibitor registration
• Meal bookings

This event is free to attend. However, due to funding restrictions there will be a charge for meals which must be pre-ordered. If you are an exhibitor and would like to sponsor this event, please let us know.

Programme as at 5 June 2021 - Note this is subject to change.

 

Wednesday 30th June

7am: Exhibitors set up

9am: Expo opens to the public, exhibitors on display - Payment for catering on entry

10am: Exhibitor talks - Focusing on digital technology and drones.

• Allflex
• Drone technology - FieldAir
• GPS collars - Agresearch
• GPS collars, maternal pairing - Smart Shepherd
• Use of GPS data - Tracmap
• new GHG component - Farmax
• New Cloud APS system - Gallagher
• Digital recording and retrieval - cloud farmer

12:15pm: Lunch (BYO or pre-paid)

12:30pm: Welcome to 2021 National AP and Deer Farmers Workshops

1:15pm : Farmer workshops session 1 (according to your choice below)

2:30pm : Exhibitor talks - Genetics

• Genetics, across breed BVs - DeerSelect
• GenomNZ

3:30 : Farmers workshop session 2 (according to your choices below)

4:45 : Exhibitor talks - Markets and market access

• Velvet markets - Rhys Griffiths, DINZ with guest JongKyu (Korea)
• Venison project in China - Silver Fern Farms
• FirstLight
• Views and opinions on the future of Deer Farming. A father and son perspective Noel Cudby and Graham Walker-Cudby

6:30pm: DINNER /Social Time (tickets must be pre-booked). All farmers and exhibitors invited to stay and chew the fat.

Travel to accommodation

Thursday 1 July

8:30am: Exhibitor talks - Animal Health

• Remote delivery systems - Dart systems NZ
• CARLA genetics for parasite immunity - AgResearch
• DeerPRO
• Tuberculosis control - OSPRI

9:15am Farmers workshop session 3

10:30 - An interview with Hunter McGregor - China

11:00am Farmers workshop session 4

12:00pm LUNCH + Exhibitor talks - Environment and Research

• DINZ environment advocacy - Lindsay Fung
• Consents and changes on the way - Horizons RC
• Assistance with waterways - Horizon RC
• Weed control options - Horizons RC
• Adding Value through FEPs - Massey University
• Leaching under sheep pastures - Massey University
• Forestry Planning considerations - John Turkington
• Tree solutions, Agriforestry adding value, Denis Hocking
• Tree guards for deer - Tree guards
• Farm Environment Code of Practice - Phil McKenzie

3:00pm - Closing address

Attendees are welcome to stay and interact with the exhibitors and ask further questions.

4:00pm: Close of exhibition and pack-down

YOUR DETAILS

Details of person registering to attend.

Please complete a new submission form for each attendee even if from the same farm, business or family.

WORKSHOPS

About the workshops

Workshops run during the afternoon of the first day and morning of the second day. One and a quarter hours are allowed for each session including introductions and setting the scene. These workshops are about FARMERS DISCUSSING the topic, what has or has not worked for them, sharing ideas and experiences. Subject matter experts are there to answer technical questions, not to tell you everything they know. We encourage you to bring along any photos or data to back up your questions or experiences.

Each session is facilitated by one or two trained people who's objective is to draw out discussion and keep the conversation on track and record conclusions from the discussions.

There are 11 workshop topics to choose from. We will make every effort to have a subject matter expert and the relevant tech expo exhibitors present at each workshop session.

We cannot guarantee that every session will go ahead and for popular sessions there may be more than one workshop running. Whether or not a session runs depends on numbers registered and timetable clashes.

After registrations have closed, we will send out individual timetables. These will also be available at the event.

Choosing your options

You can attend 4 workshops in total. For each of the workshops listed below, rank your choices first, second etc. But please choose 6 options, 2 as backup in case one or two of your first 4 choices aren't available. If it is not one you wish to attend select "No thanks" and if you don't mind either way choose "Happy to attend if other choices not available"

If you wish to change your choices after submitting the form, please get in touch with us as soon as possible to help us work through the complicated timetabling process in good time.

email: advanceparty@deernz.org

Accommodation

Please book your own accommodation.

If you would like assistance with boooking accommodation please let us know.

Transport

A shuttle will be arranged to transport people to and from your accommodation as required. This will be organised closer to the time.

Catering - LAST DAY FOR CATERING Wednesday 23rd June

Catering is at attendees cost. You can bring your own lunch to the event but there will be no onsite food sales (cafe) available. Lunch is catered at a cost of $30pp per day. This includes coffee and tea during the day.

The evening meal on the 30th will cost $60pp.

Please book your meal tickets here. You can book tickets for more than one person here but note that everyone attending MUST complete a separate registration form for Covid tracing purposes.

If you're having trouble with this form or need to get in touch you can register over the phone or by email.

Email: advanceparty@deernz.org

Phone: Stu 0273728756; Pania 0277181076 paniaflint@gmail.com