Australian Agricultural Company Limited (AAC) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Australian Agricultural Company Limited half-year FY24 results release. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question via the phone, you will need to press the star key followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. If you wish to ask a question via the webcast, please enter it into the Ask a Question box and click Submit. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr David Harris, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning and welcome to the Australian Agricultural Company's Half Year Financial Presentation 2024. My name is Dave Harris, Managing Director and CEO of AACO, and joining me on the call today is Glen Steedman, our Chief Financial Officer. I begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the various lands on which we meet today. In Brisbane, that is the Jagera and Turruba peoples, I also pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to any First Nations people joining us for today's presentation. I will start our presentation this morning by running through a few of the key highlights of our company's performance. We will then take a closer look at how we are delivering on our strategy in the first half of FY24, including how our brands are performing in our key global markets and our progress in sustainability. I will then hand over to Glenn to take us through the financials in more detail, after which I'll finish with an update of our operating environment as we move into the second half of the year. There have been challenging market conditions in the first half of FY24, but our teams have delivered across the valu...