Announcing Rick Carmont as one of our speakers at the ODPG 2024 Conference in Hawkes Bay on April 5th and 6th.
Rick was raised on an 80-cow dairy farm near Cambridge. Rick joined Bruntwood Cheese Factory near Cambridge in 1979. He studied at Massey University and spent two years with the NZ Dairy Board.
He joined Southland Dairy as the Operations manager and then headed up the 5th largest dairy company in NZ.
Rick was the founding head of Fonterra Organics from 2002 to 2011. He was also Fonterra’s General Manager of US Milks, and General Manager of Fonterra’s worldwide Super Kosher business.
In 2011 Rick took on the role of Executive Director of the Organic Exporters Association of New Zealand serving over 140 organic exporting companies and continues in this role currently.
Most recently in February this year Rick was the New Zealand Pavilion Manager for organic food and beverage at BioFach, Germany. There were 8 companies represented and 20 personnel from New Zealand attended.
Friday 5th and Saturday 6th APRIL
Two Evenings and Saturday Field Trip
at the Havelock North Function Centre, Hawkes Bay
Conference Schedule
As the theme might give away there will be a lot of discussion time this year. Our sector is under increasing pressure with limited capacity for Meat processing and Dairy having major players drop out or looking to discontinue processing. What is our destiny and what can we do? Plenty to talk over.
Our event will kick of on late Friday afternoon with Registrations and then dinner, with speakers following laying the ground work for both Saturdays Field day and our Saturday night panel discussions. We’ll be on farm on Saturday looking at both Soil and Animal Health before returning to the function centre for the AGM, Dinner, more speakers and the Panel Discussion. There will be plenty of time to mix and mingle between planned events.
Included in your ticket is Dinner on Friday and Saturday night plus Lunch on the field trip.