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Ron Creagh, with his wife Robyn and son Kim, farm 13,000 hectares in the low rainfall shires of Trayning and Nungarin in the central wheat belt of Western Australia.
Farmers Rodney and Debbie Pohlner of Glenlee, north-west of Dimboola in the Wimmera region, and the Schwedes family, also of Glenlee, were finalists in the plant biosecurity category of the Australian Farmer of the Year Awards.
Lynn and Ian Rathjen, owners of ‘Whistling Eagle’ at Colbinabbin, run a successful vineyard with some cereal crops, pastures and stud Border Leicester flock.
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.
