GrainGrowers Blog

Hi everyone, I’m Hannah and I farm with my fiancé and his family in the Lower Mid North region of South Australia and the Upper Great Southern region of Western Australia.

Hi there, I’m Chris Cooper and I farm with my wife Emily and parents Deb and Wayne in Western Flat, South Australia. Western Flat is nestled in the southeast of the state’s high producing Limestone Coast region and here we focus on growing high quality grain to feed our 500 superfine Merino ewes, and Hampshire Down Stud.

The US President Donald Trump signed executive orders implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China. GrainGrowers Annabel Mactier explores the impact, explains the Act around these and delves in what happens next.

GrainGrowers Chair Rhys Turton shares his thoughts on the year that was and his hopes for a great 2025.

Hi, I’m Alisha Campbell, and together with my husband, Matt, we farm across three properties in the Toobeah and Thallon regions of Queensland. Our farm spans approximately 14,800 hectares where the majority is cropping, both broadacre dryland and irrigation where we grow a mix of cotton, wheat, barley, chickpeas, and sorghum. We also have a grazing country running a breeding herd of Santa Gertrudis cattle on one of our Thallon properties. 

Hi everyone, I’m Chelsea, from Colinroobie, New South Wales, 36km north of Narrandera. I farm alongside my parents Tracey and Glen, and my brother Luke. Our grandparents Keith and Viki are also still working on farm too. We have a total of 3240 hectares of which 2470 hectares is cropping country. We run 1200 merino ewes and 25 Border Leicester Rams producing first x cross lambs.

Hi everyone, my name is Asha, I recently did a profile for National Ag Day for GrainGrowers and now have the opportunity to give an on-farm update. Our family farm is situated 220km east of Perth in the small town of Doodlakine. We manage a mixed operation across 2,000 hectares, focusing on both cropping and livestock. Our crop rotation usually includes wheat, barley, lupins, and peas, alongside running Merino sheep.

Behind every success is a story of challenges overcome. For Australian farmer Steven Hobbs, it’s a patchwork quilt of opportunity, learning, moving with the ebb and flow of weather to overcome obstacles.

As combine harvesters begin their roll across the Western Australian wheatbelt, Australian growers begin their early mornings to the sounds of birdsong. It's a melody Asha McFarlane from Doodlakine in the central wheatbelt, has known since childhood. Now, soon to be armed with an ag degree, she's returning to the family farm to help with harvest once more, and maybe this time, stay for good.

Hi, my name is Natasha Giles and together with my husband Bill, and our twin boys Jack and Tom, - who will be the 6th generation on the property - farm around 4000 acres on the southern Yorke Peninsula around the townships of Yorketown, Edithburgh, Stansbury, Port Moorowie and Coobowie.

Tom Carberry is a fourth-generation farmer from Narrabri NSW on a mixed farming operation. A mixed farm is one which combines different styles of farming like cropping and livestock together. On Tom’s family’s farm, they grow the four C’s - cotton, cereals, canola and cattle.

Danielle Hamlyn is a young broadacre and hay production farmer from Freeling, South Australia. Along with her husband, Dale, and their two small children, they farm approximately four hundred acres of leased and owned land at the edge of the Barossa Valley wine region.

If you chat with any farmer across Australia, one of the first things they’ll mention they love most about farming, is the lifestyle. Working with plants and livestock and seeing the work they do make a difference to millions of lives in Australia and internationally. Ben Salisbury, a farmer from near Monto in Central Queensland who runs a mixed cropping and livestock property is one such person.

Hi everyone, I’m George Clark from Bungunya Queensland. We grow wheat, chickpeas and sorghum in a five-year rotation; we’ll put in a cover crop if we think it’s needed and depending on weed burden in that field. We also run 500 head of ewes selling into the lamb market.

Hi everyone, I’m James, a 5th generation farmer and I work with my parents Sue and Andrew Russell who took over the operations from my mum’s parents around 27 years ago. Our family farm is located in North-East Victoria at Rutherglen, within a wine region that attracts tourists due to its proximity to the Murray River, mountains and of course the boundless wineries. Lilliput Ag is part of a wider family business that includes Baker Seed Co.

Hi everyone, I’m Ian and my family and Ifarm near Ariah Park, about 35km South of West Wyalong, NSW. We are 100% dryland cropping and predominantly grow canola, wheat, barley and faba beans on approximately 1900Ha.

Hi, I’m Matt Hyde. I'm a fifth-generation farmer from Dalwallinu, WA, about 2.5 hours north of Perth. Working alongside my parents Harry and Jane, we manage 7,500ha of land with 100% crop rotation of wheat, lupins, canola and field peas.

Hi, I’m Clarke Schober, a fourth-generation farmer. I work alongside my parents and brother on our family farm, located in the northern Mallee, northwest of Loxton, with another cropping property near Karoonda in the Murraylands region. Recently, we’ve diversified our operations to include a 40-hectare irrigated almond orchard at Loxton.