 | | Jack Banks grew up in the Blackall district and with wife Rhonda now runs “Springleigh”, which is a Merino breeding and commercial flock operation in central west Queensland. Jack has been a board member of AgForce Sheep and Wool for about five years, and he and Rhonda’s three children all work in the rural sector. |
 | | Peter Campbell runs “Wyambeh” at Surat in southern Queensland where his recent on-farm innovations include planting and cell-grazing about 450 hectares of saltbush as a high-protein drought reserve, and selectively breeding to increase carcass weight by 30 percent and improved worm resistance. Peter has established an SRS (soft rolling skin) Merino Stud and has been an AgForce Sheep and Wool board member for the past four years. |
 | | Gordon Collie has more than 30 years experience in the rural media. He worked with Queensland Country Life and at The Courier Mail before establishing the rural consultancy Agri-Prose in 1999. His clients have included the Sheep CRC and Australian Wool Network. Gordon is President of the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists. |
 | | Brent Finlay is a third generation wool producer who, with his wife Margie and father Scott, runs up to 8000 wethers on the family property “Cooinda” at Dalveen. Mr Finlay is an innovator who has taken their flock of coated sheep into the superfine end of wool production. He has been an active member of the regional producer group Traprock Wool and is a Vice President of the AgForce Sheep and Wool Board. |
 | | Tony has extensive experience in the sheep and wool production, harvesting and education systems. He has also been a sheep and wool instructor at both Longreach and Dalby Colleges and is a registered teacher and wool classer. During his 7 years with DPI&F he has worked at Blackall, Charleville, Goondiwindi and is now based in Toowoomba. In this time Tony has led the Sheep CRC Vocational and Industry Training project developing specialist training programs and resources. Tony was contracted by AWEX to review the Australian and New Zealand wool classing curricula which led to the updating of training delivery and resources. He is also contracted by MLA to developing guidelines for a National Code of Practice for Lamb Finishing. |
 | | Peter Johnston represents the Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation. He is acting manager for Animal Science and is based at the Animal Research Institute in Brisbane. His background is in pasture science and livestock grazing systems. |
 | | Jenny and Rick Keogh live on “Amaroo”, 120km south-west of Blackall where they run 2000 Merino stud ewes as part of their Merino stud and flock enterprise. Jenny is most interested in integrating management systems, and improved outcomes for sheep and wool producers. |
