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Foot-and-mouth disease
With Timor only 500 kilometres off the coast, exotic pests are an ever-present threat to Lachlan Dobson’s 120,000 mango trees and 80,000 red flesh grapefruit trees.
According to Lindsay Bourke, finalist in the 2014 Plant Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award, a biosecurity plan is an investment in the future of a business and the community.
Grain farmer Ron Creagh from Nungarin, WA was a winner of the Plant Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award.
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.
