Meet the Team

Senior Knowlege Broker, Grains Industry & Digital Networks – Agriculture Victoria Jodie has recently joined the Young Farmer Network Team and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with her in agriculture extension and facilitation. Jodie has come on board to help manage the Young Farmer Network Community of Practice [...]

Farm Business Economist, Agriculture Victoria Sam is a farm business economist with Agriculture Victoria based in Bendigo. Sam’s role in the team is to help with the Young Farmer Business Bootcamps and to generally bang on about farm business management.  Sam gave up the glamour of dairy farming in Northern [...]

Livestock Industry Development Officer, Agriculture Victoria, Maffra James Paulet works as a Livestock Industry Development officer in Maffra, for Agriculture Victoria, where he assists with Local Economic Recovery work (fire, flood & drought recovery) across East Gippsland, as well as helping to deliver the TopSoils project, which is a part [...]

Business Consultant, ORM, Bendigo Joining ORM in 2019, Tim is from a family beef and cropping operation in the northern wheatbelt of WA. Tim has considerable experience in broadacre livestock and cropping operations which allows him to understand the scenarios that farmers are faced with. In recent years Tim has worked as [...]

Director and Farm Business Consultant, Meridian Agriculture. Paul Blackshaw is a Farm Business Consultant based at Rutherglen in North East Victoria. He provides services in farm business management, financial analysis, benchmarking, succession planning and industry projects. Prior to joining Meridian Agriculture, Paul worked at Agriculture Victoria as a farm business economist [...]

Specialist Farm Business Economics, Agriculture Victoria. Claire is our go-to for technical farm business economics advice. With a can-do attitude, Claire leads a team of farm business economists and work program area covering dairy, sheep, beef, grains and horticulture. She is driven to make a difference and builds positive relationships [...]

Program Manager Grains Industry & Digital Networks, Agriculture Victoria Kellyanne is our wonder woman overseer who is always out in front finding new ways to deliver our services digitally. She wears many hats in her role – including managing CropSafe, Field Crop Diseases Victoria, the Victorian Crop Sowing Guide as [...]

Project Officer – Knowledge Broker, Grains Industry Networks, Agriculture Victoria Sarah has been part of the team for a few years now and has worked on the young farmer business network from the get-go. Although she still isn’t exactly sure what a knowledge broker does, she is willing to have [...]

Principal Consultant, Cumbre Consultants.  Gavin has worked delivering farm business management services for over 30 years.  He says it’s been a privilege to have worked in every State and Territory, with a wide range of farm businesses and projects.  He’s also enjoyed getting his hands dirty, developing farm businesses from [...]

Young Farmer Project Coordinator, Agriculture Victoria Sarah’s job is to coordinate all the moving parts that make up the young farmer project. Day to day she is busy organising great events like the Young Farmer Business Bootcamps, and doing less exciting things like reporting. Sarah is motivated by amazing stories [...]