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Part 1: interview – The story of Marquis Macadamias

6.30 pm – 7.30 pm AEST – Interview

The north-east coast of Australia is home to the world’s largest macadamia processing company, the area where macadamias first evolved 60 million years ago. Indeed, macadamias are the sole Australian native crop ever to be developed and traded globally as a commercial food product. Farmer-owned co-operative Marquis Macadamias grows, processes and sells almost half of Australia’s macadamias, as well as 22 percent of international kernel sales and 16 percent of international nut in shell sales.

Join our host Pete Lewis in this chat with Larry McHugh, CEO of Marquis Macadamias. Their discussion will look into the co-op’s recent rebranding, as well as how they managed to add value, profitability and resilience to farm incomes with advanced food manufacturing.

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Part 2: roundtable – How co-operatives add value?

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
8.15 pm – 9 pm AEST – Roundtable discussion

How the co-operatives add value: maximising produce and the food manufacturing supply chain. Journalist Pete Lewis and our farmer panel discuss and explore how maximising their produce into marketable products can transform producers from price takers to price makers.

Our expert discussion panel comprises of:

The Hon. Karen Andrews, MP – Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
Larry McHugh, Chief Executive Officer – Marquis Macadamias
Matt Rutter, Chief Executive Officer – Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative Ltd.
Simon Stahl, Chief Executive Officer – Northern Co-operative Meat Company Ltd.
Michael Hampson, Chief Executive Officer – Norco Co-operative Ltd
Melina Morrison, Chief Executive officer – BCCM

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Join Pete Lewis for an inspiring interview series as he explores the journeys of some of Australia’s most interesting and successful co-operatives. Pete’s long and varied experience as a journalist specialising in agriculture will ensure he gets to the heart of the issues you want to hear about. This livestream is part of the Co-operative Farming program.