Southern Australia Livestock Meat Research Council (SALRC)

To get involved, contact your regional committee:

Angus Hobson - Chair

SALRC

gushobson@yahoo.com

Angus is a sixth generation primary producer and owner and manager of Bukalong in the Monaro region of South East NSW. Here he runs a self-replacing Merino flock as well as a self-replacing Angus herd to supply weaners for the grass and grain finishing market. He also grows a range of forage crops, predominantly lucerne and winter cereals.

Angus has considerable technical, practical and strategic planning experience spanning more than 25 years in the red meat and livestock industries. This includes managerial and livestock experience on properties throughout Australia and New Zealand and as a trainee manager with Australian Country Choice (primary supplier of beef and veal products to Coles Supermarkets).

Angus has also held a range of corporate positions in the livestock industry, including Chief Executive Officer of the Red Meat Advisory Council Ltd, Director of Monaro farming systems, Director of XF Enterprises (a multinational provider of ruminant nutrition products and consultative services), and Policy Officer with Cattle Council of Australia.

Other roles have included senior positions with MLA, the Southern Australian Beef Research Council (SABRC), Performance Feeds and Unipro International. Angus holds a Bachelor of Rural Science from the University of New England, has completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors course and has worked as a qualified MSA Grading Officer and AUS-MEAT Chiller Assessor.

Lucinda Hogan – Regional Chair

Northern NSW

luhogan@optusnet.com.au

Lu has 30 years of experience as a sheep, cattle and irrigated crop producer across a range of environments in NSW. Along with her husband Dan, they currently produce prime lamb and beef in the New England region of NSW.

She has also worked with Australian Wool Innovation, Sheep CRC and Meat and Livestock Australia as a researcher and a manager of research, development and extension projects to improve business performance, productivity and sustainability in the industry. In recent years, her work has involved delivering training programs in the areas of genetics, genomics, electronic identification and flystrike management to sheep producers and the development of digital tools to simplify business decision making.

Gus Whyte

NSW Central West, Rangelands and Queensland

wyndham3@bigpond.com

Angus, with his wife Kelly, runs a mixed grazing operation over two properties in the Wentworth/Broken Hill area on the Anabranch River. Here, they produce mainly store lambs and calves for on-selling to finishers, while mutton is sold over the hooks.

Merino genetics are predominantly used in the sheep flock, although most years White Suffolk rams are placed over a portion of the enterprise’s ewes. Angus’ cattle herd includes cross-bred cows, predominantly Santa Gertrudis cross, with the use of Angus bulls.

Angus is chairman of the Southern Community Advisory Group for the Western Local Land Services and past chairman of the Lower Murray Darling Catchment Management Board. His strong work in the area of soils has seen his operation selected by Soils For Life as one of two case studies for the Western NSW region.

Jenny O’Sullivan

South East Victoria and Tasmania

osulliva@dcsi.net.au

Jenny is well known for promoting sustainable agriculture, particularly in Gippsland where she and her husband run a 680ha beef and sheep property.

Over the past 29 years she has helped develop and deliver many initiatives to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable management practices including working with the South Gippsland Landcare Network, MLA’s scoping study for sustainable agriculture, Dairy Australia’s DairySage mentoring program and the Westernport GipRip Project. She is also the recipient of a number of awards including the Beef Improvement Association’s Service Award, the Hugh Mackay Farming Award and the Gippsland Women’s Honour Roll for her work to advance agriculture and protect and enhance the area’s natural resources.

More recently, Jenny and her husband Paul have created an exciting agri-tourism business, Gippsland Food Adventures, promoting Gippsland as a premium food region.

Julian Carroll

Central Victoria

julian@blackstarangus.com.au

Julian Carroll is a commercial beef and seed stock producer from Mudgegonga in Victoria’s North East. A 4th generation farmer on the family property, Julian returned to the land in 2008 after 20 years in Melbourne, spent mostly running an IT company.

Julian is passionate about the adoption and promotion of best practice principles and has presented at various conferences around the state. In 2015 he was a finalist in the beef category of the Weekly Times Farmer of the Year.

Julian is also president of the Mudgegonga and District Landcare Group and a part time project officer for the Myrtleford-based rural supplies co-op (TAFCO) where he organises extension and adoption activities that promote sustainable farming practices in the Ovens, King and Kiewa Valleys.

Tim Leeming

Western Victoria

pconsult@bigpond.com

Tim and his wife Georgie run a self-replacing prime lamb flock, a seed stock business, run cattle and grow some cereal pasture crops at Pigeon Ponds in Western Victoria. They have substantially expanded the business over the past decade and have a strong focus on productivity and land development.

Tim has been involved with and still manages extension activities with a number of Lifetime Ewe Management groups and a BestwoolBestlamb group and delivers qualified training in agriculture at Rural Industries Skills Training, Hamilton.

Tim has been involved at executive and committee level in many and various local organisations including the Balmoral Branch of the VFF, Balmoral Pastoral Agricultural Show Society and Coopworth Genetics Australia. He also sits on the BestwoolBestlamb Advisory Committee and has been an implementation committee member for Land and Biodiversity for the Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority.

In 1999 Tim was recognised as a Young Rural Ambassador for Victoria and has participated in a number of rural leadership programs during his farming career in Canberra and at Marcus Oldham College.

Jane Kellock - Regional Chair

South Australia

kelvale1@bigpond.com

Jane and her husband Greg and family run a mixed-farming enterprise in Farrell Flat in the Mid North of SA. They have a self-replacing merino flock, a lamb finishing system, some South Devon Cattle and cereal and legume cropping. Jane has a long farming history in South Australia and would be known to many through her various roles in the sheep industry.

She holds leadership roles with the SA “Sheep Industry Blueprint” and “Sheep Advisory Group”, and is a member of MLA’s Board Selection Committee and was a member of the SA LambEx Planning Committee.”

She is a passionate sheep producer who is always wanting to improve her flock and looking for the next R & D opportunities to use. Technology, engaging with youth, animal welfare, systems farming and business management are areas of interest for Jane.

David Watt

Southern NSW

david@watt.com.au

David, with his wife Mary, run a mixed farming business encompassing sheep, winter cropping and TMFL feedlot over several properties in Central NSW near Trundle.  Focused on Lamb finishing the farm is managed to exploit the synergies of a mixed enterprise production system.

TMFL feedlot is active in the store market as well as finishing lambs from David’s Merino and 1^st cross ewe flock. Winter crops include Canola, Wheat, Barley, Oats, Lupins, Vetch and forage rape, while pastures are predominantly legume based.

David has been involved at the executive and committee level in many local organisations and is currently Chairman of Central West Farming Systems and a member of the Producer advisory Panel for Sheep Connect NSW. He holds an advanced diploma of business management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

David is passionate about ensuring industry levies are used efficiently and result in effective RD&E outcomes for producers.