Integrating Our Resources
10-13 October 2010

The 2010 AFG Conference was held in Mount Gambier.  Mount Gambier is the centre of the Green Triangle, the largest plantation region in Australia, boasting nearly twenty percent of Australia's plantation resource. Alongside the industrial plantation resource are farm foresters, processing facilities and innovative practices in forest management, value adding and forest innovation.

The 2010 Australian Forest Growers (AFG) National Conference provided the opportunity to explore the management, marketing and opportunities available to forestry in the 21st century. Locating the event in Mount Gambier provided the ideal platform to exposé current practices, thinking and the chance to look to the future and its challenges.

Meeting the high standards set by previous AFG conferences, Mount Gambier 2010 was informative, challenging and entertaining, offering:

• Field trips to a wide range of forests and processors
• Presentations from highly experienced forest scientists, growers, business managers and policy makers
• Extensive social and networking opportunities

High quality presenters highlighted current practices, future possibilities and potential issues that require today's attention. This was a practical yet thought provoking conference that challenged attendees to think to the future today. Sub-programs ran throughout the conference examining:

• Management
• Marketing
• Opportunities

To view the papers from the conference, click here.

Articles about the AFG 2010 Conference from The Border Watch, 14 October 2010

   Agroforestry takes root, by Jacob Moss (page 4),  3.26 Mb  
   Foresters urged to sow seeds of change, by Jacob Moss (page 9),  266.28 Kb