Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A keynote speaker at a mining conference in Wollongong says the agriculture sector will come out worse off than the mining sector in the coming decades. Business forecaster Phillip Ruthven from the IBIS Group also told the conference agriculture has a far greater environmental footprint than the mining industry. Mr Ruthven says the output from the coal mining industry in New South Wales is twice that of agriculture. He says in the face of climate change, mining will be a …