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Peter and Sandra Young’s holistic approach to biosecurity has rendered them champions of the Australian agricultural industry and finalists in this years inaugural Australian Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Awards.
Ivan Rogers is the principal of RA Rogers Co, a mixed farming enterprise based in the Western Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
The owners of two businesses that grow bananas in north Queensland were finalists in the 2014 Plant Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award.
You would be hard pressed to find a sheep or cow in the country that would not trade places to live at Bally Glunin Park, near Hamilton in Victoria’s southwest.
A proactive attitude and regional collaboration are the key planks in Bob Reed’s approach to tackling biosecurity threats.
In a first for the Australian Farmer of the Year Awards, an aquaculture business has been chosen as a finalist in the Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award, with Peter and Frances Bender’s Tasmanian salmon and trout farm and processing operation demonstrating that biosecurity is not confined to dry land.
Bill Casey of Botanical Resources Australia in Ulverstone, Tasmania, grows pyrethrum daisy for its valuable insecticide.
