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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.
Having put home-grown duck firmly on the Australian dinner plate, over the past two decades Pepe Bonaccordo has been cementing the future growth of the industry by developing and enforcing uncompromising standards on biosecurity, food safety and animal welfare.
Richard and Jacquie Halliday from Bordertown, South Australia demonstrate that when it comes to managing ovine Johne’s disease (OJD), good communication is their biosecurity weapon of choice.
New South Wales sheep producer and 2010 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year finalist, Terry Hayes, was a pioneer of biosecurity farming practices long before he knew what the term meant.
