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Foot-and-mouth disease
Beekeeper Lindsay Bourke, who owns and runs Australian Honey Products, has bred bees that clean out their brood nest at the whiff of a pest or disease.
Peter and Frances Bender’s fish farm and processing business, Huon Aquaculture Pty Ltd took out the 2013 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award in the animal category.
Shannon Paton and Sarah Schultz, who run Paton’s Exotics at Nerada, near lnnisfail in Queensland, were the winners of the 2014 Plant Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award.
Mark Engall, is the owner and manager of Engall’s Nursery in Dural NSW. Established in 1946, Engall’s is a third generation family run business, specialising in growing fruit trees and roses on 3.6 hectares.
Murraylands onion grower Steve Rathjen is the winner of the Plant Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award.
Canegrower Clinton Southern is a finalist in the plant category of the 2013 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award.
Alan Petersen and Julie-Ann Murphy are from Rum Jungle Organics, a 26 hectare property that they’ve run since 1999 in the Northern Territory, the principle crop being bananas.
