Committee Detail
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Name: Jed Sommerfield Role: Coordinator/Producer Charleville Phone: 0427 665 185 sommer3711@hotmail.com |
Bio coming soon. |
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Name: Sam Harwood Role: Extension Officer DAF Charleville Phone: 0400 256 427 sam.harwood@daf.qld.gov.au |
Before joining Leading Sheep, Sam previously worked with the NSW Local Land Service in Tenterfield. In this role he worked in the Animal Biosecurity and Welfare team. Sam’s background also includes time in the meat industry where he worked in mixed species abattoirs at Frederickton. Sam looks forward to bringing some of the skills and knowledge gathered in these previous roles to Leading Sheep. When he’s not working you will find Sam fishing or enjoying the outdoors. |
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Name: Anthony Glasson Role: Producer “Picarilli” Thargomindah Phone: 07 4655 3106 agglasson@bigpond.com |
Anthony along with his wife Gerda, their 3 small children and his parents Ian and Lyn live on “Picarilli” south-west of Thargomindah. After working on many properties in the Thargomindah district as well as Julia Creek and Cloncurry, backpacking and working in Europe and the U.K, pressing in the shearing sheds and working in the oil and gas industry I have settled back home with my young family. “Picarilli” runs in a normal season 6000 merino sheep and 1500 beef cattle. Our target is to produce 19-20 micron wool off a large, straight bodied, easy care merino with high fertility. We ceased mulesing in 2007. |
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Name: Bruce Lines Role: Rodwellls Roma Phone: 07 4622 5785 qwools@bigpond.com |
Bruce was born and raised in the Roma and Maranoa District, married – Wife Gemma and son Alexander. Bruce is passionate about all aspects of sheep, wool and wool harvesting and commits an enormous amount of work and personal time to the industries. Commitment shows with 20 odd years shearing, woolclassing and training staff. Plus over 10 years working as a woolbroker, supplying wool clip preparation advice and representing client’s wool for sale and furthermore promoting merino sheep as a productive and viable enterprise. In his spare time competes in woolhandling events and promotes “Sports Shear” as an elite industry sport to the wider communities. |
| Name: Ange Smith Role: Producer Augathella Phone: 0407 372 615 angesmith81@hotmail.com |
Angela and her husband Lionel, live on their property ‘Buckey’s Creek’ west of Augathella with their two children. Their main focus is on their sheep flock as well as running beef cattle. Angela’s focus is to maximise profits for producers through more efficient production and marketing techniques. Angela studied a Bachelor of Agribusiness through the University of Queensland and has experience in Agribusiness lending. | |
| Name: Jesse Moody Role: Producer “Yarmouth” Cunnamulla Phone:0429 405 708 jesse.moody@bigpond.com |
Jesse Moody manages a mixed enterprise on his families property, “Yarmouth”, north east of Cunnamulla. While being involved in sheep and wool for the majority of his working life, he worked across all facets of the industry. His main interests are pasture management, nutrition and sheep genetics as they all have the biggest influences on the livestock. In his spare time, Jesse keeps busy in the region with cricket, rugby and the show society through their working dogs. Assisting other proactive sheep and wool producers to network, improve their management systems and adopt new technologies are just a few of the reasons Jesse has become involved with Leading Sheep. | |
| Name: Chris Turnbull Role: Producer |
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| Name: Janica Glasson Role: Producer “Picarilli” Thargomindah Phone: 07 4655 3106 |
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| Name: Will Hacker Role: Producer |