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Trudie Payne, with her husband Liam, manages a successful grazing operation in the heart of central Queensland. Her life took an unexpected turn in...
Flower farmer, tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Grown Not Flown, Nikki Davey has been named the 2023 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award Winner for...
Nuffield Australia has announced a bumper crop of 2024 scholars, with five extra spaces added to the program thanks to the Australian Government's...
Luke Bowen, chief executive officer of Cattle Australia (CA), has resigned from his position due to health issues. His resignation is effective...
Alkira Riley loves helping people. The Nutrien Ag Solutions agent from Leongatha was always keen to get stuck in on the dairy farm run by her parents...
AuctionsPlus, Australia’s most trusted online agriculture platform, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Jackson Hewett into a...
AuctionsPlus chief executive officer Angus Street will depart the business on July 28, following nearly five years at the helm.
Building industry’s capability to feed future populations is fast becoming a focus of youth in the agricultural sector, and there’s no shortage of...
Clean your boots, care for your family and always, always, stay honest - that’s the advice that’s stuck with career agent and now AuctionsPlus...
As much as it’s a cliché, there’s no denying the truth of ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. But what happens when you live in rural or remote...
Leadership, determination and spirit are qualities that many of the next generation of ag possess, but they’re also what set some exceptional young...
With a business named after her kids’ imaginary pet dragons and a job description that includes taste testing pet treats, it’s no surprise ‘highly...
Telling other people’s stories is something Hayley Kennedy does every day – but today, the tables have turned and she has shared her story with me...
Farmers from around the world are banding together to support their peers in the cyclone-affected East Coast region of New Zealand.
Josie Clarke is a young woman who wears many hats. An agronomist, research assistant and PhD candidate in gene editing for crop improvement, Josie is...
When a photographer pulls out a camera, there’s guaranteed to be one of two reactions.
For some, Christmas holidays imprint fond memories and maybe a few extra kilograms. For 13-year-old Matt Cooney, it showed him the future he wanted.
Queensland students are learning to muster cattle, drive a tractor and plant crops from their classroom.
With two young children and a full-time career in the building industry, Troy and Hannah McNally’s life in Sydney was comfortable, and yet the...
Artist, agronomist and agricultural communicator – Warren’s Penny Heuston is a woman of many talents as the success of her art business, the Heuston...
In the midst of the dust storms and drought of 2019, Buy From the Bush founder Grace Brennan had an idea that would bring the creativity and...
Simon Southwell celebrates a 30 year career with Ray White Rural this month; a journey that started in south west Queensland and continues on in the...
You say “farmer” and people often think of a man. They shouldn’t, but they do. So how do you feel about the word “farmer”? Does it describe what you...
Two paths lead to one hit podcast. While Jackie Elliot grew up on a farm, co-host Kirsten Diprose found herself living on one after a fortuitous...
When a group of rural photojournalists formed an Instagram account – Beauty in the Bush Collective – to inspire and motivate each other, the cascade...
Any parcel in a rural mailbox delivers a little slice of joy, something new to discover while the kettle boils. But one arrival is unboxing a table...
AuctionsPlus has caught up with Ivan Price to chat about all things Moongool Charolais.
AuctionsPlus has caught up with David Greenup to chat about the exciting future of Rosevale Santa Gertrudis and the upcoming stud season.
Don Mudford’s family has been farming on the western plains of New South Wales for more than a century. But they haven’t maintained all traditional...
AuctionsPlus has caught up with Lachie Kelly to chat about the exciting future of LSK Poll Dorset & Suffolk Studs and the advantage AuctionsPlus will...
Bonnie Cox has spent the last four weeks working alongside the AuctionsPlus team after being awarded the inaugural Angus Foundation and AuctionsPlus...
Going for goat: the story of how a long-established beef and cropping farming family with over 100 years history in the Collie district aims to make...
Sisters and stylists Emma Read and Sarah Hall at Willungra in South Australia love creating interiors, love old things and love working together to...
AuctionsPlus has caught up with Tom Baker to chat about all things Woonallee Simmentals.
It’s some of Australia’s harshest and yet most beautiful country. It’s a land of contrast, of crocodiles and cattle, and where just two seasons reign...
Well before Western Australia’s Covid border closures there was actually a Western Australian who enforced his own border… with Western Australia....
Anise Boulot still remembers the first time she set foot on Woolbrook Homestead. The property had been in her partner Lachie’s family for over five...
Panshanger Estate has been home to the Mills family since 1908, today the Father and son combination of George and Nicholas Mills run their mixed...
Several years ago, Nick and Sara Moyle, principals of Pathfinder Angus, made the decision to move away from interfacing their annual bull sales...
Life is pretty good for Rex Rowles, it’s busy, but it’s good, as he combines his two favourite things to make a living – farming and beer.
Emma Fessey is our resident Elite Athlete, around training with the Australian Rowing Team she manages to fit in some time with us supporting various...
What does a dairy farm, a feed business, a trucking business, and a service station all have in common? The entrepreneurialism of one farming family.
What do you get when you’re a farmer slammed with soaring export tariffs, then your drought and frost hit product is rejected on visual grounds? Did...
It’s an annual drawcard that brings together young people from the Queensland beef industry to network, learn and see firsthand some incredible...
Col Thexton isn’t one to beat about the bush. Thirty years ago he was the only Western Australian agent to list cattle with AuctionsPlus, then known...
Kangaroo Island may be small in size, but its reputation as a premium tourism destination was elevated to a whole new level and made international...
What could be better than getting a Hemsworth to pop by for a visit? Well, according to a very clever regional tourism manager in the Central West of...
By her own admission, Cara Peek wears many hats, but her drive and determination to create opportunities and equality for Aboriginal people in remote...
The foundations of a data-driven business were forming as soon as Tom Bull left university. Taking a job with USA Lamb company, Superior Farms, Tom...
It all started with a few recycled jars filled with homemade and seasonal food at the local farmers’ market. Give it a few years and a lot of...
Stepping through the gates of BackTrack for the first time, every kid hears something that both shocks and soothes them - you can’t get kicked out of...
As a rural reporter with the ABC in Brisbane in the 1980s, Kerry Lonergan knew if he ever got the chance to launch a country program for country...
Memories of delicious, wholesome food from Grandma’s kitchen is the ethos behind one couple’s business, but it’s also driving a bigger mission to...
From her kitchen table on a Queensland cattle property, Claire Dunne set out to uncover the stories of women on the land - just like herself. In...
From CEO of the Australian Wagyu Association to broadacre cropping farmer and now a motherhood coach, there is very little that Benita Bensch hasn’t...
Set amongst a stunning, century-old homestead and lush, wedding-ready gardens in the Scenic Rim is Towri Sheep Cheeses, run by mother and daughter...
As a grazier, pilot, interior designer, business owner and mother of four, a day in the life of Yolande Woods is never dull - whether she is...
Belinda Rasheed is no ordinary agricultural woman. From Jillaroo to head stockman to manager in the wilds of the NT while simultaneously owning and...
Somewhere in one of the most far-flung regions of remote Australia, a man celebrated Christmas with his family last year. Ordinary? Far from it. Just...
The humble breadtag may seem small and insignificant, thrown away without a second thought when the last slice of bread is pulled from the bag. But...
Emma Ayliffe is an expert multi-tasker. When the recently crowned Young Farmer of the Year isn’t working her day-job as an agronomist, she’s...
Nick Mignanelli is a young man on a mission. The third generation dairy farmer has some simple but profound goals; produce happy, healthy cows,...
Growing up on an outback sheep and cattle station, Dr Ellen Litchfield has observed how a green paradise can transform into swathes of bare ground...
As an eager six-year-old wanting a tangible piece of the family stud business – her own cow – Megan Kent was given a steer. This only fuelled a young...
As you're probably aware, The Rural Women's Award is an annual award program that celebrates and showcases women in leadership roles across rural and...
There’s a rich, indelible history to family farms. It’s intertwined with our local communities, woven over hundreds of years. Generations, ideas and...
It was late into the night as Andrea Cross’ husband was still cutting out hundreds of personalised timber table decorations that she joked it was a...
For many farming families ‘they’ll have to carry me out of here in a box’ is a familiar refrain. Farms are passed down from generation to generation...
The first time his local council asked Neil Druce to submit a DA he scratched his head in confusion. Why would he need a district attorney? The self...
Growing up on a farm in Mudgee, New South Wales, Madie Hamilton knew a farming career wouldn’t be for her - but a career in agriculture still...
The curtain should be drawing to a close on what would have been an incredible celebration of everything agriculture in the heart of Brisbane....
Hannah Murray is currently the Business Development Officer with the Northern Territory Cattleman's Association. Hannah is one of those Gems of the...
We get the feeling that if you got the chance to sit down for a yarn with Bill Keene, it wouldn’t be long before you’d be swept up in a life filled...
Maigan Robertson had her heart set on becoming a doctor for as long as she could remember. Inspired by her GP grandfather, Maigan earned top HSC...
Heidi Morris is a true advocate for the agriculture industry, at first, her name might not spring to mind but if we say Lens.Of.Rosie then maybe that...
The low-tech responsibility of teaching her children’s School of the Air curriculum from her kitchen table on her cattle property near the tiny town...
It’s been a year of success so far for the Australian beef industry, record high prices, improving seasonal conditions and a strong demand for...
If you're a fan of Rugby union these next two names should be fairly familiar to you. Lewis Holland and Charlotte Caslick are both primed for their...
While many of our great great grandparents would have unwrapped a nice set of pots and pans on their wedding day, one family welcomed a gift that...
In Australia, just three percent of the shearing industry is made up of women. Eryn Smith is a novice female shearer from the Victorian Highlands and...
Most farming properties are steeped in family history, handed down from one generation to the next, but first-generation producers Adam and Jacynta...
Imagine this. An Aussie bloke walks into a country pub and orders a water - and no-one bats an eyelid. That’s the day Shanna Whan will know she’s...
It’s a still winter's morning and the fog has engulfed Woko Station near Gloucester in NSW, the sound of the water trickling through the property’s...
There aren’t many things more meaningful than a handwritten letter. For Mea Campbell, the founder of profit-for-purpose organisation, Connected AU,...
1986 can be remembered for some incredibly historical events, The Oprah Winfrey show launched in the United States, Dire Straits recorded the largest...
They say to keep your work and personal life separate but for one husband and wife team, the two could not be more intertwined - and they wouldn’t...
As Maree Duncombe surveys her beloved Charbray herd on Conondale Station, a 930-hectare property in the Queensland Sunshine Coast Hinterland, she...
Goat meat may not be up there with lamb, beef and chicken on Australian menus, but if Linda McKenzie has her way it will soon become mainstream in...
Skye Manson once failed a job interview so spectacularly her future boss didn’t need to sugarcoat it. Instead, he gave her another shot and she spent...
If there’s anyone blessed with a good set of pipes, it’s Paul Dooley. The renowned seedstock auctioneer says he got lucky with a voice that doesn’t...
At 30 years old Shannon Speight is just a spring chicken by the agricultural industry’s standards but when it comes to the tech world, she jokes she...
Resilience and pivoting are two words we have all heard a lot in the past year. If there is one rural woman who has embraced them, it is Kat Porter...
After making a shift from the South Island of New Zealand to the North Island, Twin Oaks Angus Stud is thriving by taking a modern approach to...
“After five generations of Maungahina, our goal still remains the same today; To breed and sell quality genetics that stand the test of time, yield...
Katie Lewis When Tessa Cameron was growing up she didn’t see women at the saleyards. Today, along with fellow livestock assessor Katie Lewis, she...
“What up farm?!” is a catchphrase that is, well, catching on and coined by West Wimmera farmer Mark Merrett whose video commentary of everyday farm...
When she was five years old Nina House’s parents scraped together every penny they had and bought the second worst block in the district. That was 38...
Six years ago David and Jill Raff shipped their entire Angus operation from the mainland to King Island. Today, they’re packing their bags again but...
Eight years ago Alice Mabin walked into a camera shop and asked for the best equipment money could buy. Was she a professional photographer? Not even...
Austin Grace lives by the motto ‘you can work as hard as you want during the day but it’s what you do in your own time that sets you apart.’ The wise...
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