ABARES Outlook Conference 2025

All session recordings are available to watch on our YouTube channel.

Session 1 - Driving agriculture’s productivity and sustainable success

• Ben van Delden, Climate and Agrifood Partner, Deloitte - Transforming Australia into a food superpower (PDF 761 KB) 
• Professor Alex Robson, Deputy Chair, Productivity Commission - Australia’s productivity challenge (PDF 552 KB)

Session 2 - Commodities spotlight: navigating future trends and opportunities

• Commodities Spotlight Panel (PDF 1.1 MB)

Session 3 - Cultivating intelligence: data for shaping modern agriculture

• Katie McRobert, Executive Director, Australian Farm Institute (PDF 653 KB)

Session 4 - Fields of influence: agricultural trade, global giants and protectionism

• James Fell, Trade and Global Change, ABARES (PDF 1.1 MB)

Session 5 - Sowing seeds of investment: attracting capital to agriculture

• Dale Ashton, Farm Data and Analysis, ABARES - Trends in farm debt and investment in farming (PDF 862 KB)
• Charley Cramer, National Head of Agribusiness, AgFin Australia (PDF 509 KB)
• Dr Nicola Thomas, Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences, Charles Sturt University (PDF 886 KB) 
• Jesse Reader, Head of Investment, Growth and Commercial, Hort Innovation (PDF 650 KB) 
• David Bryant, Managing Director, Rural Funds Management Ltd (PDF 5.5 MB)

Session 6 - Harvesting harmony: balancing social license, sustainability and productivity for long-term success

• Courtney Bailey, Agriculture Sector Lead, Voconiq - Community trust in rural industries – how do you determine and measure community trust? (PDF 483 KB)

Session 7 - Resilient landscapes: tackling pests and weeds for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity

• Dr Tony Arthur, Chief Biosecurity Scientist, ABARES - Insights into Australia’s established pest and weed problems (PDF 1.3 MB)
• Justin Crosby, Director of Government and Strategic Relations, CropLife Australia (PDF 4.3 MB)

Session 8 - Farming talent: ensuring a sustainable agriculture workforce

• David Turvey, Executive Director, Jobs and Skills Australia - Food Supply Chain Capacity Study (PDF 933 KB)
• Professor Ruth Nettle, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, University of Melbourne (PDF 634 KB)

Session 9 - ‘Walking together’ for Indigenous commercial outcomes

• Rohan Jacobsen, Forests and Land Sciences, ABARES - Insights into Indigenous Land and Forest Estate (PDF 2.3 KB)
• Professor Emma Lee, Professorial Research Fellow, Federation University (PDF 830 KB)

Session 10 - Securing the essentials: fuels, fertilisers and farm chemicals

• Andrew Henderson, Principal, Agsecure - Food security preparedness (PDF 13.8 MB)

Session 11 - Eyes in the sky: leveraging satellite data for sustainable agriculture and climate resilience

• Dr Hugh Mortimer, Global Research Innovation Partnership Program Lead, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council - Satellite Earth observation for agriculture and climate (UK-Aus collaborative program) (PDF 2.5 MB)

Session 12 - Sustainable productivity and net zero

• Dr Will Chancellor, Farm Performance, ABARES - The evolution of farm productivity measurement (PDF 444 KB)
• Su McCluskey, Special Representative for Australian Agriculture (PDF 682 KB)
• Richard Heath, CEO, Zero Net Emissions Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre (PDF 2.1 MB)

If you have difficulty accessing these files, contact abaresevents@aff.gov.au.

ABARES Outlook conferences have been informing and influencing Australian agriculture’s policy agenda for more than 50 years, bringing together senior government figures, industry leaders, policymakers and expert researchers. ABARES Outlook 2026 conference will feature dynamic session formats, hybrid participation and the exclusive Welcome Sundowners networking function.

We invite you to be a part of one of the industry’s most trusted, anticipated and high-profile stakeholder engagement events. Our sponsorship packages are designed to deliver an excellent return on investment, whilst delivering your organisation’s brand and message to our stakeholders in Australia and internationally.

We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you to create a package that best meets your needs.

To discuss partnership opportunities, contact abaresevents@aff.gov.au.

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ABARES is a division of the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry. We acknowledge the Ngunnawal people the traditional custodians of the land where we work and where Outlook is hosted. We pay our Yadaba (respects) to the Traditional Custodians of this land, their culture, their language and elders both past and present.