Name: Lyn and Trevor and sons Keith, Colin and Ian Bolto
Location: Macgillivray, Kangaroo Island
Average Rainfall: 500mm
Enterprises: 5,400 Merino breeding ewes, 4,200 hoggets and balance of 4,300 wethers. Normally shear around 17,000 head.
Farm Area: 1,760ha (including 60 ha crop – rotation of wheat or beans)
Name: Dave and Michelle Farley
Location: Kybybolite, South Australia
Average Rainfall: 565mm
Enterprises: 10,500 maternal & composite ewes
Farm Area: 5000 acres
Name: Tom Weckert, “Valkyrie”
Location: Orroroo, South Australia
Average Rainfall: 300mm
Enterprises: Mixed cropping and livestock
Farm Area: 3000ha
Name: Matt Clarke
Location: Pine Grove Station, Hawker
Average Rainfall: 300 mm
Enterprises: Self-replacing merino and terminal sire over merino
Farm Area: 30,350 hectares
Name: AJ and PA McBride Pty Ltd Warren Breeding (Manager)
Location: Teetulpa Station, Yunta
Average Rainfall: 208 mm
Enterprises: Self-replacing merino
Farm Area: 86,000 ha
Name: Lloyd and Christine Berry
Location: Kangaroo Island
Average Rainfall: 500 mm
Enterprises: 4,600 adult Merino’s 19.3 micron average
Farm Area: 1,200 ha (984 ha arable) 600 ha crop (beans, wheat and canola)
Name: Graham Clothier
Location: ‘Greenvale’ Woolumbool, South East, South Australia
Average Rainfall: 385mm
Enterprises: 3500 ewes (1500 merinos 2000 crossbreds) + 2000 hens
Farm Area: 650 hectares
Name: Deane and Prue Goode, sons Henry, Tom and William Goode
Location: 20 km South of Kingston, South East, South Australia
Average Rainfall: 650-675 mm
Enterprises: 5,600 Merino ewes, 350 breeding cow herd
Farm Area: 2,772 ha (40-50 ha leased out for potato production), 210 ha under pivot irrigation (lucerne or potatoes)
Name: Simon and Marissa Veitch
Location: Kangaroo Island
Average Rainfall: 500 mm
Enterprises: 2,400 adult Merinos, 19 micron. 200 cows and calves, 200 yearlings
Farm Area: 1,380 ha (1,050 ha arable) including leased property, 300 ha crop (wheat, canola and lupins)
Name: Tim & Kate Buck and Tim’s parents Bruce & Alison.
Location: Hundred of Duncan, Kangaroo Island
Average Rainfall: 750mm
Enterprises: Mixed cropping and livestock
Farm Area: 700 ha arable