Main messages from the morning speakers:

• Landscape change can be positive
• Water use is going to be a big issue
• Is policy the right way to manage land use?
• A reducing importance on agriculture
• Landscape will look better though more vegetation
• More tension – knowledge gap between rural and urban
• Environmental values will expand form farm to catchment
• There will be more legislation
• Landscape change will be more market driven
• There will be more education
• More pressure to prove clean and green
• Mix of market and Government driven
• There will be more set aside land
• More water reuse
• Environmental water will be at risk
• Farmers perceived as poor land stewards
• Environmental tax

What the future looks like for us as change agents:

• Honest community consultation
• As advisors we will need to incorporate much broader values
• Need to look for more species balance
• Have a role in helping manage land vales – much broader than now
• Consider more carefully landholder values
• Danger in picking winners
• We have to be prepared to change
• Productivity and value adding will increase
• There will be more roles in value adding
• More complex management
• Increase in the scale of landscape change
• Succession changes
• Change has not stopped
• Change has to be facts based
• Have to deal with more specific interest groups

What the future means for AAAC and APEN:

• Ability to deal with a wider range of groups and stakeholders
• Client base changing to from individuals to organisations
• More complex role dealing with more people
• Will have to develop different networks eg non ag – Lawyers, Marketers etc.