Bega Cheese Executive Chair ‘optimistic’ for Australian agriculture despite challenges

Bega Cheese Executive Chairman Barry Irvin says The Australian’s Global Food Forum is a great opportunity for the sector to “come together”. Leaders in agribusiness gathered at the Global Food Forum in Brisbane to discuss the investment, innovation, and technologies revolutionising the sector. “There is a recognition of some of the challenges ... Australia is looking at very high costs of energy, high costs in manufacturing,” Mr Irvin told Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd. “There is always optimism in a conference like this, but there is always a willingness to sort of face into the challenges that the industry inevitably faces.”