The document summarizes the key themes from the 2014 AMS 40th Anniversary Industry Conference. The three big themes discussed were: 1) looking to other industries to increase productivity, 2) thinking globally and acting locally, and 3) challenging everything done and seeking continuous improvement. Specific topics covered under each theme included canopy management, pests/diseases, global nut supply, and setting ambitious productivity goals. The conference encouraged participants to pursue improvement with passion and to make progress each day.

1. Let us now be up and doing! Jolyon Burnett

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Three big themes
We must look to other industries to
lift productivity
We must think globally and act locally
We must challenge, question and
improve everything we do

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Lifting productivity
 Look outside our industry for ideas and opportunities
 Ashley Ratcliff
 David Dole
 Jesse Reader
 Apply what we already know
 Canopy mgt
 Orchard floor
 Pests and diseases
 Play to our strengths
 Health
 Consumers
 Breeding

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Think globally, act locally
 We have nothing to fear but fear itself
 Our place in the nut category
 Understand the global supply situations
 Appreciate the opportunities
 Act to position ourselves to capture these
 China

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Challenge, questions and improve
 Challenge and question everything we do
 Ashley, Robbie, Jesse
 Michael, Richard, Larry
 Step across the line and take action
 The more you put in, the more you get out
 Stabilisation to expansion phase
 Use the good times to position ourselves for the bad
 Set goals that extend us
 2 tonne club? 10 tonne club!
 Passion

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A psalm of life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is real, life is earnest
But to act that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today
Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving, still pursuing
Learn to labour and to wait