Joining them will be Professor Alice Stanton, who will be giving the Science Lecture and telling visitors how the headlines that red meat is damaging to the health is not the whole story.
Commenting on the speakers, Matthew Naylor, a Lincolnshire farmer and chair of the 2020 Conference said: “For the first time almost 50 years, farmers in the United Kingdom will be working under a repatriated agricultural bill and, with the loss of direct payments and new foreign competition, they face a decade of change. We are delving into society’s challenges to find the opportunities for farming businesses.”
“The conference will debate how agriculture can balance a low carbon economy with healthy, nutritious, affordable food, as well as exploring the opportunities to harness the power of food to unite urban consumers with farmers.
“We’ll also talk about how farmers could diversify into other services for society to provide solutions to national challenges such as obesity and mental health, in partnership with, for example, the NHS.”
The Conference will be held from 7-9 January at Oxford University.