Qualifications and Membership:

• BSc (Agric) (Hons)
• Lapsed Sydney Futures Exchange representative

• Broadacre agronomy, 10 years experience- provides advice in all aspects of crop and pasture production including weeds, nutrition, disease, varietal, and rotation management. Developing production plans to assist growers in short and long term paddock management.
• Business analysis - taking the physical and financial data from farm businesses and analysing this to assist in the development of the business. This includes projecting future cashflows, determining year to year profitability and benchmarking results against industry levels.
• Property purchases & leases - financial analysis and projections relating to purchasing or leasing land.
• Editor of the Planfarm Herbicide Guide.
• Grain Marketing - help growers to compare different pricing alternatives which are consistent with their management goals.
• Farm management- hands on management of a 5000 acre farm in the Three Springs shire.

Interests:

Andrew has a love of the ocean and just being outdoors rather than office bound with hobbies include windsurfing, surfing, diving, fishing, camping and book reading.

Qualifications and Membership:

• Bachelor of Science Degree (Deakin University, Victoria, 1988)
• Member AAAC WA (Agricultural Consultants Association of Western Australia).

• Business analysis - taking the physical and financial data from farm businesses and analysing this at key performance points to assist in the development of the business.
• Budgeting - projecting future cashflows to enable farmers to have a 'business map' from which they can operate.
• Benchmarking - collating the data for various clients from similar rainfall areas and comparing the performance of individual farms.
• Property purchases & leases - financial analysis and projections relating to purchasing or leasing land.
• Strategic Planning - assisting farmers to develop long term plans from which they can make strategic business decisions.
• Succession Planning - helping farmers, through facilitation, work their way through this often daunting task.
• Grain Marketing - provides general information.
• Project work / management - currently does work for various organisations such as the Mingenew-Irwin Group and Dept of Agriculture and Food on several research projects.

Interests:

Cameron lives in Geraldton and spends his spare time mostly with his wife and two little boys and tries to find time for fishing, diving and camping. He enjoys all sports but in particular football (is still an Essendon tragic but enjoys both WA teams), tennis and golf.

Qualifications and Membership:

• Bachelor Agricultural Science

• Specialist Agronomic Advice providing farm specific agronomic advice which is dollar focussed. Working with the natural assets of soil and climate to generate the best returns from agricultural produce. This is achieved by:
  
  1. Nutrient Budgeting - Maximising net profit from the specific fertiliser inputs.
  
  2. Pesticide Applications - Taking into account resistance issues.
  
  3. Rainfall Probability Analysis - Is it worthwhile applying inputs given the probability of receiving rainfall in the various rainfall zones.
  
  4. Optimising Crop and Variety Selection - Specific for the Northern Agricultural region.



• Trial Co-Ordinator role with the Mingenew Irwin Group. Design and Co-ordinate the MIG trials program to dessiminate information to growers within the group and surrounding growers.

Interests:

Involved in most facets of a seaside existence including windsurfing, surfing and free diving. Also occasionally seen on mountain or road bikes if the ocean is unpleasant.