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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 yearning for something else lingered.
Jaiden McNally embraced the move from Sydney to Gundary and now operates the stud side of Amaroo Australian Whites.
So, the family packed up the tools, their home and their life and headed south to begin a new chapter in Gundary, near Goulburn, New South Wales.
More than a decade on, the McNallys are now a family of five, operate Amaroo Australian White stud and achieved record-breaking success in 2020 when they reached $650 per head in a full dispersal of their White Dorpers.
With a population of 270, life in Gundary is a far cry from their city beginnings, but the McNally family has found home.
“As we’ve explained to the kids, farming isn’t an easy path, it’s a seven day a week, 365 day a year job but we enjoy it and we just wanted to give the kids an opportunity of living a life on a property,” Troy says.
“Even when I was living in Sydney I always knew if I ever had kids I’d want them to grow up experiencing that life.”
Teenage son Jaiden is in charge of the stud side of the business, ‘living and breathing agriculture’, according to Troy. Daughter Ella and youngest son Bayle also pitch in, and with an embryo traser program and an on-site property sale in their sights, the future is looking promising for the McNally’s.
“We never expected ourselves to be in the position we are, that allows us to focus on pushing something we all enjoy doing,” Troy says.
