Saturday July 28

9.00am                 Opening and Introduction

9.20am                 Intro to Industry/where we are today

9.50am                 Farming – Soils

10.20am               Garlic Growing in Australia

10.45am               Morning Tea

11.10am               Seed source – Healthy seed

11.40am               HAL (Horticulture Australia Limited)

12.10pm               Marketing - Rosie Mackinnon  - Northern Tasmanian Winner - 2011 Women's Entrepreneur Award (Tasmanian Natural Garlic, Mouquet Farm ,Hagley TASMANIA)

12.40pm               Branding of Garlic – Ben White CEO NRIA

1.10pm                 Lunch

2.00pm                 Farm Visit

7.00pm                 Dinner

Sunday July 29

9.00am                 AGM

10.15am               Morning Tea

11.00am               Postharvest requirements of Garlic

11.30am               Mechanisation of Garlic

12.00pm               Workshop 1 Standardisation of Garlic Grading in Australia

12.45 pm              Lunch

1.30 pm                Workshop 2 Levy and the future direction of Research and Development of Garlic

2.15pm                 The New AGIA Committee

2.30pm                 Industry support/overview and the future

3.00pm                 Close

4.00pm                 1^st Meeting of the newly elected board

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