Tim McGrath is Senior Agribusiness Development Officer with Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. He has over 25 years of Agri-business development experience working across all major agricultural industries in Northern Australia. Tim has developed a passion for understanding profitable agricultural productions systems and an in-depth, field-based knowledge of the north’s resources, supply chains, opportunities and constraints. He is also recognized as an expert in livestock handling and behavior and is one of the founding members of the livestock handling movement called Low Str ..read more

Allan Parker OAM is a Micro Behavioural Scientist and Negotiator. Allan usually introduces himself as an eccentric Micro-Behavioural Neuroscientist, International Negotiator, and Educator. He works as a negotiator/facilitator of large-scale multi-party negotiations and disputes. Within government and private organisations, he trains in negotiation, dispute prevention and healthy considered conversations. Allan has presented, facilitated, and moderated in over 60 different countries around the world and has had participants from 192 countries in his audience at one time at the United Nations ..read more

Robert Wyld grew up on a cattle and sheep property in the Western District of Victoria. After school, Robert attended Melbourne University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours. He began his career working in the construction industry, working on the Crown Casino development before heading overseas for five years. Whilst in the UK, Robert worked on a new maintenance facility for Concord Aircraft and a new storage and research facility for the Natural History Museum. Returning to Melbourne, Roberts' enthusiasm for the construction industry waned and he started to tinker with ..read more

Jon Wright is a beef cattle seedstock producer from Woodstock NSW near Cowra. Being the 4th generation on the property, cattle have been in his blood from the start. Passionate about breeding and maximising production gains, he started the Blue - E line of cattle in 1997. Blue - E was a composite of 50% Shorthorn 50% Angus that has recently included Simmental cross composite genetics. He has developed a line of cattle that has included testing and selecting for feed conversion from its inception. Coota Park Blue - E have a fully automated feeding system (Growsafe -Vytelle) imported from Canada ..read more

Matt has worked with the Animal Genetic and Breeding Unit (AGBU) since October 2004, in the development and improvement of genetic evaluation technologies for beef cattle breeders. Key areas of research have included the development of new traits to describe female productivity in tropically adapted beef breeds, with a focus on cow body composition and reproductive performance. He was also involved in a Trans-Tasman collaborative project to improve our understanding of factors impacting cow productivity in temperate beef breeds, with a focus on characterising and establishing the genetics of a ..read more

Oli Le Lievre is the Content Marketing Manager at AuctionsPlus and the Founder of Humans of Agriculture. His career to date has seen him working in a variety of roles ranging from farm management, to fresh produce export, corporate agribusiness advisory to agtech startups. Oli is passionate about increasing consumer awareness, showcasing career opportunities in agriculture to the next generation and believes that innovative people and ideas will deliver solutions for businesses and communities to thrive. Oli takes on these tasks in his day to day role as well as through his initiative Humans ..read more

Lewis Frost is chief operating officer of Ceres Tag, the world’s first direct to satellite smart ear tag and data platform for livestock. In other words, Lewis is a brainiac; and brings to the beef industry a background spanning animal monitoring, livestock genomics, animal health and molecular diagnostics. He is also an advocate of tech adoption in production animal industries. Recently appointed Queensland board member for the Australian AgriTech Association, Lewis is working to foster a world-class agritech ecosystem and help create a prosperous future for Australian agrifood innovation. S ..read more

Garry and Leanne Hall are cattle producers from the Macquarie Marshes in north central NSW. Part of their property is Ramsar (International Convention on Wetlands) listed, which creates an extra level of responsibility and connection with their landscape. The Halls, with their two children, are passionate about the sustainability of their production system and their role as an ecosystem service provider, managing their land to ensure they have positive environmental outcomes. They are involved in water management at all levels on a daily basis and regularly host visits from political level t ..read more

James Wagstaff is editor of The Weekly Times. Having grown up on a sheep station in the NSW Riverina he started his career as a journalist at the Daily Advertiser in Wagga Wagga in 1998. In 2004, he shifted to Melbourne and The Weekly Times and served in a number of roles including Deputy Editor, Chief of Staff and Business Editor. During his time at The Weekly Times he has spearheaded such successful projects as The Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year Awards, which has grown into Australia’s leading agricultural awards, and the multi-platform Who Owns Australia’s Farms series. He is a four ..read more

20 years ago, Doug embarked on a journey of change. Driven by the need to survive drought, it's been the most rewarding journey of his life. Writing the Resilient Farmer was Doug’s way of saying thank you to the people and processes that drove his change. Doug, his wife Wendy and their family, live in Eastern Marlborough, New Zealand. Bonavaree is a 2343 ha owned and 420 ha leased dry land farm. Over the last two decades, huge changes to pasture type and use, stock type and farming systems have seen a dramatic change in the fortunes of that farm and the Avery family. The changes achieved at ..read more