Making More From Sheep coordinators
National Coordinator
Mike Wagg
Mike Wagg was appointed as the National Coordinator for Making More From Sheep (MMFS) phase 2 in September 2010, having also worked as the National Coordinator for phase 1.
Mike previously worked as the Project Manager for Land Water & Wool and as a sheep and wool extension officer in Victoria.
He has also managed a family farming business near Hamilton for 25 years, running a Merino flock.
As National Coordinator, Mike works with the state coordinators to ensure that:
- MMFS meets the objective of helping sheep producers to do what they do even better.
- The implementation of the MMFS program is consistent across the states.
- Opportunities for the states to work together and with agribusiness partners are identified.
- Program key performance indicators and monitored and evaluated.
- Program accountability processes are fulfilled.
State Coordinators
Natasha Morley - South Australia
Natasha Morley is an Agribusiness Consultant with Rural Directions Pty Ltd and is the South Australian Making More from Sheep State Coordinator. Natasha is based at Clare in the Mid North of South Australia.
In addition to MMFS state coordinator, Natasha is involved in business planning, benchmarking, project management and delivery, and the management, coordination and delivery of training services.
Natasha's role as the MMFS state coordinator is to work with a network of service providers to coordinate the delivery of MMFS in South Australia. The South Australian program will focus on providing opportunities for sheep producers based around: improving genetics, weaning more lambs, effective pasture utilisation and developing business planning and whole of business analysis skills.
Lloyd Kingham - New South Wales
Lloyd Kingham is the NSW MBfP and Making More from Sheep State Coordinator and advocates a "back to basics" approach to rebuilding the State's herd following drought.
Lloyd is based in Wagga Wagga with Industry & Investment NSW (I&I NSW) and, after five years working as the Eastern Riverina drought support worker, is looking forward to focussing on productivity and profitability through the MBfP program. As Lloyd explains, MBfP is about "closing the loop" on research and development (R&D) by making sure clever ideas resulting from producer funded R&D are easily incorporated into production systems and on farm gains result.
Accredited workshops 4 many of which are approved under the DAFF FarmReady scheme 4 will be delivered to small groups of interested producers through events across the State by both I&I NSW beef cattle officers and technical specialists, along with agribusiness specialists from private enterprise.
Practical field days, attracting large numbers of producers, are also planned to allow hands on skills development. Usually accompanied by vigorous discussion, these field days will include MBfP Producer Advocates who will express their opinion on the role some of the research outputs have to play in their own livestock enterprise.
Lyndon Kubeil - Victoria
Lyndon is employed by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, as the Project manager of Victoria's BESTWOOL/BESTLAMB Network and the MFfS State Coordinator. Based in Benalla in North East Victoria, Lyndon has a background in sheep extension including the delivery of pasture based programs, wool marketing and processing, and genetic comparison trials, including the North East Victoria Sire Evaluation site at Dookie College. Lyndon also runs a Merino ewe enterprise in the Violet Town region.
Tony Hamilton - Queensland
Tony has extensive industry experience in sheep and wool production, harvesting and education systems. He has been a sheep and wool instructor at both Longreach and Dalby Colleges, holds a degree in Further Education and Training, and is a registered teacher and wool classer.
During his 11 years with DEEDI he has worked at Blackall, Charleville, Goondiwindi and is now based in Toowoomba. During this time Tony has led the Sheep CRC Vocational and Industry Training project developing specialist training programs and resources.
Tony was contracted by AWEX to review the Australian and New Zealand wool classing curricula which led to the updating of training delivery and resources. He is also contracted by MLA to develop guidelines for a National Code of Practice for Lamb Finishing. Tony has been involved in both the Leading Sheep and Making More from Sheep extension projects since their inception.
More information
MIke Wagg
Phone: 03 55682945
Email: jarrapool@bigpond.com
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