Shannon Beattie is a country kid born in the city. At least, that's how she's always felt. For most of her life, she's pursued her career as a journalist, eventually realising her country kid dreams by joining the Farm Weekly in February, 2020 as the Senior Grain Writer. But she's about to embark on another adventure, and this time, it's with US! 

We are so excited to bring you this super special reveal of a project we've been working on behind the scenes for a while. All that remains to be said is to keep your eyes and ears peeled for harvest! 

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Oli's career has seen him responsible for Business Development of Aglive, a Tech start-up providing solutions for farmers and supply chain participants to tackle major issues such as trust in our supply chain and food provenance. More recently leading Innovation - Food & Agribusiness with Global Table Australia, an organisation listed by Food Tank as one of the 120 international organisations 'Creating a new Decade of Food'.

He also sits on the Board of Directors for The Future Farmers Network and Rocket Seeder and is passionate about the future for rural and regional Australia. Oli’s on his own journey to Find out more about the future of Food and fibre through growing engagement and connections to agriculture through his own platform “humans of Agriculture” (I: @humansofagriculture_).

Tune in on Oli's platform on Wednesday for our interview on Humans of Agriculture!

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Lucy Anderton, Albany - farms in partnership with her husband in a broad acre mixed farming enterprise. As an agriculture economist she recognised the need for an easy-to-use whole-of-farm business analysis tool to assist with building resilience in the industry.  Working with agricultural stakeholders, Lucy designed FARMSMART®. Using their own data farmers can explore alternative scenarios, enterprise mix and seasonal conditions. Lucy’s project will deliver business development workshops using FARMSMART® with a focus on understanding risk and financial outcomes in a complex environment.

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Other mentions in this episode: Daisy Goodwin, Sustainable Simply, Tori Kopke, Big Ideas Rural

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Byron Milne grew up on a diverse family farming enterprise in Zimbabwe, Africa. But his family's worst nightmare changed their life, causing them to  pack up everything and get on plane to Australia when Byron and his sisters were only young. After leaving school, Byron joined the Australian Army to pursue a career in aviation. But, after a while, he realised that his heart always belonged in the bush. After seven years, Byron quit his budding career in aviation to go back to university to study his life long passion in agriculture. 

Now, Byron is starting out as an agronomist with Lamond & Co. in York, Western Australia and has an incredible journey to share. 

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Elle Fordyce (I: @ellefordyce__) was first exposed to agriculture after visiting a family friend's farm a lot as a child. She then went on to help educate high school students on agriculture which is where she learned she had a real passion for agriculture. Studying Animal Science with a particular interest in Cattle led Elle to Katherine, NT where she’s living the best of both worlds both responsible for reporting and communications as well as getting out onto the research properties to help find solutions for graziers with any issues they might have with their cattle. 

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Jo Ashworth is a Kalannie girl through and through. Born and raised in the small Western Australian farming town, some 300 k’s from Perth, she grew up on her parent’s farm. Just like most kids in the area, she went off for boarding school in Perth. Jo studied to become a Mechanical engineer, meeting her husband Wal along the way.

As Jo’s three boys grew up, Jo found ways of becoming a really involved member of the community, eventually becoming a manager of the Kalannie Community Resource Centre. But a career challenge with her son caused Jo to start asking questions, and then started down a journey to the Growing Kalannie project, an initiative that saw Jo become a finalist in the 2020 Agrifutures Rural Woman of the Year awards for Western Australia.

As a Mum, Jo works to challenge her own beliefs and be an amazing model for her boys, encouraging them to discover their own paths in life. She’s passionate about changing the status quo, developing community, and in turn, growing the population of Kalannie.

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Other mentions in this episode: Elizabeth Brennan, Erin Gorter, Ag4U Career Pipeline Program

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Lucy grew up Batemans Bay on the south coast of NSW and didn’t have an agricultural background but decided she was interested in environmental science and sustainability leading her to study a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at the University of Sydney which has only allowed her to grow a tremendous passion for agriculture. Currently Lucy is working as a Relationship Analyst at Rabobank in Esperance WA, previously worked as an Extension and Development Agronomist at Cotton Seed Distributors. Lucy founded Get Agducated (I: @getagducated) in 2019 to be able to show people where their food and fibre come from and the people, processes and jobs behind it all. Really want to bridge the gap between the city and the country so people have a better understanding of agriculture and may consider agricultural careers as a good pathway for them.  Lucy is keen on working to grow Get Agducated further to reach as many people as possible to be a really influencing part of that conversation bridging the divide.

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Sarah Nolet (T: @svnoles) is an internationally recognized food systems innovation expert, the CEO and Founder of AgThentic, a global food and agriculture strategy firm, and co-founder of Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first dedicated agrifood tech VC firm. She is a powerhouse of the Australian agri-tech and start-up ecosystem - from advising dozens of startups, designing accelerator programs and consulting to established agribusinesses, to helping industry, universities and government develop and implement forward-looking initiatives in food system innovation. And as if that wasn’t already enough, she is also the host of the AgTech...So What? podcast, and co-founder of Farmers2Founders, a national innovation program for primary producers.

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Belinda is based on a mixed grain and sheep farming enterprise. Her project is based around Internet of Things, a trial of sheep collars and how the data collected can be used. Her aspirations are to change the way livestock and technology is viewed, which has mainly concentrated around manual handling. Humans have adopted ‘fitbits’ to monitor bodies in real time – could the same be done for livestock?

Belinda's roles have constantly evolved over the last 22 years to accommodate the changes that having a family brings. Belinda is responsible for the partnerships paperwork including all grain marketing but she also loves being in the sheep yards. As a farmer, she constantly battles to reduce the mortality rates, particularly in lambing ewes and weaners. Adopting best practice management tools to prevent mortality has helped improve these rates, however there is still room for further improvement.

Belinda believes the industry is facing a number of challenges as society’s attitudes and perceptions evolve in regards to animal farming and need to accept a certain of responsibility to change with it. Opportunities in using sensors and movement technologies could be the next management tool to take welfare and lamb survival to the next level. 

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Other mentions in this episode: Little Outback Learners, Zoe Hayes

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Sam Wan is a Wool industry professional working as a Wool Broker, Wool Business Specialist & Auctioneer. Sam is becoming the wool industry’s true digital disruptor, through technological innovation that in the coming years, the entire industry will benefit from through greater community and client engagement

Sam is also the 2019 Winner National Council of Wool Selling Brokers Australia Broker Award, 2019 Wool Producers Australia, Youth Ambassador, 2018 “Thomas Elder” Employee of the Year Stock Journal: Elders recognises wool innovator, Art4Ag Australian Wool Innovation Wool and. Young Farming Champion.

As a First generation Australian-born Chinese Macanese originally from Western Sydney (Blacktown, New South Wales) Sam is now making waves based in Melbourne, Victoria. Sam also runs https://samanthawan.com.au/ which is a platform that not only tells the stories from the industry but also shares her favourite wool products from around the world.

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