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Western Australian 2010 Runner-Up - Erin Gorter	2010 Western Australian Runner-Up – Erin Gorter Farmer leader Erin Gorter is a broad acre farmer, President of the Evergreen Farming Group and Chairman of WA QLamb. She and her husband operate a diverse range of rural enterprises comprised of prime lambs, grains, wool and agroforestry. Evergreen Farming is a farmer driven group that aims to achieve sustainable ‘Green Farms All Year Round’ throughout the agricultural regions of Southern Australia. The Group has proven—through many years of applied research, demonstrations and trials—that perennials can substantially increase farm profitability and also combat environmental challenges such as water logging, salinity and erosion. WA QLamb is also a farmer driven group that owns a lamb brand as part of a full lamb supply chain and is the leader in the lamb industry across Australia. WA QLamb is a brand that guarantees quality lamb from the paddock to the plate through an alliance between prime lamb producers, Hillside Abattoir, retailers and consumers. Erin has also made a significant voluntary commitment to rural and community organisations over the past 16 years including the Mobrup and Kojonup Land Conservation District Committees, the Rural Women’s Network Kojonup, Sustainable Grazing Systems, EverGraze, Future Farm Industries CRC Adoption and Commercialisation Panel and the National Sheepmeat R, D & E Plan. Her Award ambition is to develop her leadership skills to improve her confidence to take the next step in her leadership journey and to encourage other women to become involved in primary industries. She has identified the Meat Executive Program as the relevant program to further her skills and grow her as a leader. Erin’s ambition is to interact with educational institutions in an effort to help them attract and foster the next generation of agricultural leaders, to play an active role in moulding and building their industries. She would like to travel to each of the State’s Universities and Colleges of Agriculture and spend time discussing with staff and students ways of fostering interest and support. Home
Victorian 2010 Runner-Up - Claire Penniceard	2010 Victorian Runner-Up – Claire Penniceard Rural sustainability campaigner Claire Penniceard has been farming for the past two decades and is the owner and sole Director of The Pig Pen Pt Ltd, a significant pig production business that grows out pigs in north-east Victoria on contract to service specialist export markets. The Pig Pen’s environmental credentials have received a number of Awards, including the Pork Industry Environmental Stewardship Award and the only farming enterprise ever to become a national finalist in the Banksia Awards. The challenges of getting approval from her shire council to set up an intensive enterprise on her own broad acre farm, is what has motivated Claire’s Award ambition. Claire believes that shires across Australia are having to come to terms with significant change in land use, both for urbanisation and more intensive agricultural purposes, and the unplanned nature of this land use is causing significant social and environmental conflict over amenity and resources. Claire’s answer to the conflict is the Precinct Strategy, a planned land use change, which allows for the strategic co-location of enterprises including intensive agriculture, industrial and conservation entities and allows for the efficient provision and servicing of the infrastructure required for them. She has spent the last six years working on the Precinct Strategy and has created and led an industry reference group to support the planning process. The zoning process has been completed and a planning panel has just approved the process. Claire believes the Precinct strategy has the potential to change how we utilise our land for sustainable agricultural production nationally against the challenges of food security. She is committed to speaking with various national bodies and agencies about her experiences and knowledge and the benefits of the Precinct Strategy Home
New South Wales 2010 Runner-Up - Alison McIntosh	2010 New South Wales Runner-Up – Alison McIntosh Beef industry innovator Alison McIntosh Alison McIntosh is the Principal of AJM Livestock Solutions, a business that offers beef cattle producers and industry stakeholders a number of services relevant to compliance with the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS). She provides group training and individual consultancy for cattle data capture and herd management. She lives on her family’s property in the Southern Highlands where they run some 300 head of Angus breeding cows. She is involved in the day-to-day running of the business along with the marketing of the property’s annual sales. Alison represents the younger generation committed to primary industries in her position of Chair of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW Youth Group and is a Next Generation member of the Royal Agricultural Societies of the Commonwealth. She is also an active member of the local show society and a member of Australian Women in Agriculture. Alison’s Award ambition is to further develop her leadership capacity within the beef industry through education and networking. She plans to research high level cattle producing operations throughout Australia, focusing on electronic data capture systems and technology, to produce an industry training package that will encourage the greater adoption of data capture and management within the beef industry. Home
Queensland 2010 Runner-Up - Jane Milburn	2010 Queensland Runner-Up – Jane Milburn Farmer advocate Jane Milburn is an agricultural scientist, freelance writer and media consultant working in the rural sector. Jane has a long-standing commitment to primary industries involving diverse roles such as ABC rural reporter, media advisor to a Minister for Primary Industries, and media consultant to various farm groups and organisations. She is vice-president of the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists and immediate past president of the Rural Press Club of Queensland. Jane’s vision is to develop a fresh brand for Australian agriculture through credible and positive stories about food and food producers, which, in turn, can raise pride and respect in the sector and foster awareness and understanding in urban communities. Her aim is to aggregate elements of existing industry food and farm promotion efforts on a website www.foodfarmingaustralia.com as an electronic showcase of Australian food that can link Australian consumers with producers using social media tools. Pitching this ambitious, big-picture concept to key constituents, stakeholders and investors to enable it to come to fruition is Jane’s next challenge. Find out more about Jane on her website www.milburnmedia.com Home
Tasmanian 2010 Runner-Up - Catriona Macleod	2010 Tasmanian Runner-Up – Catriona Macleod Aquaculture educator Catriona Macleod is the Research Group Leader for Ecosystems Effects of Aquaculture at the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute. She has worked in aquaculture production and aquaculture support industries for the past 20 years and has been a key industry-government research liaison contact for the past 10 years. Catriona is committed to improving the understanding of aquacultures effect on the environment and to improving industry’s ability to mitigate and manage its environmental footprint, to ensure its environmental sustainability. As an applied research scientist Catriona has been frustrated at the lack of uptake by stakeholders of research outputs and outcomes, despite the potentially significant benefits both in terms of profitability and environment. Catriona’s Award ambition is to seek out new methods and approaches by which aquaculture industries in Tasmania can improve their uptake of environmental research so as to maximise the value of that information and improve awareness and understanding across industry, government and the broader community. Her ambition is to travel to Europe, the United States and Canada to learn from the experiences of their aquaculture industries in communicating environmental research and information. On return she will review a range of communication and extension models that are currently proposed for rural industries in Australia and overseas, with a view to identifying those most applicable to Tasmania and its aquaculture industries. Home
South Australian 2010 Rural Women's Award Runner-Up Stacey Fallon	2010 South Australian Runner-Up – Stacey Fallon Regional food champion Stacey Fallon has held the position of Food Development Officer with the Eyre Peninsula Regional Development Board for the past five years, working with a diverse range of primary industries including seafood, grain, meat and wine. Stacey also helps her husband run their 7,000-acre cropping and livestock property in Lock on the Eyre Peninsula. Her professional position involves improving the region’s primary industries business capabilities, through efforts such as facilitating the entry of food companies into new markets, providing feedback to growers to stimulate new product and process development, and supporting market driven value chains, to increase the region’s food sectors sustainability. A key focus of Stacey’s role has been the establishment and ongoing management of Brand Eyre Peninsula ‘Australia’s Seafood Frontier’ a marketing initiative designed to cement the Eyre Peninsula’s position as one of Australia’s top food producing regions. Stacey’s vision is to see Eyre Peninsula become a market leader, by working collaboratively in sharing resources, by employing more innovative marketing and education programs and by increasing customer knowledge and appreciation for the region’s produce. Her Award ambition is to travel to the world’s largest food market organisation; the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute to learn from their marketing programs. ASMI is a world leader in marketing and has successfully implemented a number of innovative initiatives, such as consumer point-of-sale items and retail sale aids, targeted food service staff training and education programs including an interactive web based training program. The study tour Stacey believes will provide her with the knowledge and know how to execute new marketing initiatives in the Eyre Peninsula and to develop the Eyre Peninsula Retail and Food Service Seafood User Guide. Home