Institute of Agriculture

After graduating, I went out to the big world of Ag advising with the WA Department of Agriculture - who else would employ graduates in those days? My how times have changed!

After three years in Moora and a short stint at the Departments Dryland Research Institute in Merredin, Elders enticed me back to Moora working on their massive agronomy team of four people to cover the whole state.

I managed four years of driving all over the countryside conducting farmer meetings, paddock inspections and field days before the travel bug caught me and I headed overseas for 18 months and travelled extensively and worked minimally.

After returning home, I rejoined Elders and the agronomy group, before moving to Perth to take on the Manager of Technical Services role. This has evolved and morphed into a combination of technical services, seed business management, a livestock technical development role and regional business responsibility for several stores, including our two extremes of Esperance and Derby.

Cynical people have suggested I chose the two stores with the best beaches and the best fishing in the state, and while that is true, they also have a diversity in agriculture that can't be matched anywhere else.  I also recently started running my own consultancy business, Add-Agri Enterprises.