S1: Co-Operation and Collaboration

Food & Drink specialist consultant, Kerry Hammond facilitates an hour with some of Scotland ( & Ireland’s) most enthusiastic collaborators.  Featuring Anna Robertson the Co-Op and training manager at SAOS, Hector Munro from Foulis Farm (Black Isle) , Caroline Black Director of Black’s Agri-services (Angus), Jim Booth Head of CoOp Development at SAOS, Donald Ross (from Rhynie Farm Tain) & Director of Scottish Agronomy, and TJ Flanagan, our international speaker, CEO of ICOS the Irish Cooperation Organisation Society.  Understand about different types of collaborative working, the value in formal co-ops and the models they can take, and hear first hand about the successes, and lesson learned along the way by those doing it on the ground.