IDF World Dairy Summit

Over 100 speakers, 3 symposia running in parallel each day, and technical tours that include infant milk formula manufacture, food research, cattle breeding and dairy farms are on offer.

What	IDF Dairy Meeting
When	Sep 29, 2007 02:00 AM to Oct 04, 2007 02:00 AM
Where	Dublin, Ireland
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Ireland prepares an energetic blend for the IDF World Dairy Summit in

September, 2007

Dairying - can it manage change ?

All eyes will focus on the Dairy Leaders Forum involving CEO's from a number of leading dairy companies worldwide for their words of wisdom on future market prospects. Further detailed analyses will follow during the Dairy Policy & Economics Symposium where dairying in a post EU milk Quota regime will be examined. Biofuel related issues will dominate the afternoon session (Economics of Environmental Issues) with a paper by Dr Yelto Zimmer, FAL Braunschweig (DE) addressing the indirect effects on dairying, in terms of both competition for agricultural land and raising the price of cereals. This in turn raises feed costs for dairy farmers and increases the competitiveness of grass-based production. An FAO representative will speak on Dairying and Greenhouse Gases. With methane having 20 times the greenhouse impact of carbon dioxide, this is becoming a significant issue. Australia's series of droughts, as warning for all of us, will be discussed by the chairman of the Australian Dairy Council. Mark Leslie, Fonterra (NZ) will focus on Foodmiles and Carbon Footprints.

Milk Production and Farm Management
In the first part of the symposium, the views of dairy farmers from around the world (UK, US, DK, E. Europe, CN, IE, AU) will be aired during the course of a Dairy Farm Leaders Forum. The second half of the symposium will explore enterprise structure, role of genetics, impact of animal welfare and the dairy production research supports appropriate to meet the needs and increase the production efficiencies of future dairy farmers.

Nutrition & Health
A panel of leading international speakers has been assembled to address key nutrition issues from a dairy product perspective under 4 themes:

Metabolic Syndrome and Dairy Products: focus on overweight and cardiovascular disease
Fats Revisited: Update on latest research based on epidemiological and physiological studies on certain key positive components
New insights into the health benefits of calcium
New insights into Probiotics and Prebiotics

Functional Foods Forum

It will address the development of milk product derivatives containing biological activity, hence the term functional food where such products confer a physiological response over and above general nutritional benefits. Japanese success in this field within the confines of the FOSHU-based regulatory is already well known and hence accounts for the presence of several of their speakers on the programme.

Dairy R&D symposium

The objective of the session is to assess the scale and health of dairy research at a time when much is changing in the dairy industry and in public science.
Approaches in various countries where different models exist i.e. NZ, Ireland, The Netherlands, Australia, S. America and USA will be covered. The purpose is to compare the situation existing in these countries taking a cross-section of views from public and privately funded research. The speaker panel will cover the perspective of industry (Fonterra, NZ), national organisations (Dairy Management Inc, USA) and institutes (NIZO, NL; Teagasc-MFRC, IE; EPAMIG, BR) describing the present situation in their sphere of activity, from a programme, organisation and funding viewpoint so that a picture can emerge of the scale and relevance of Dairy R&D in their region or country, and of the various ways in which funding and public-private linkage is organised.

A poster session will also take place during the WDS 2007, and over 80 poster abstracts have already been submitted.

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