Veterinary graduate Mitchell Dodds is on a steep learning curve during his first calving season. 2020 marks the beginning of the career Mitchell has aspired to since primary school. He was the inaugural recipient of the Jakob Malmo Gardiner Foundation...

Suzie Jacobs is passionate about helping her dairy community create a positive narrative for the future. Living the last 10 years in Ballendella, near Lockington in northern Victoria, Suzie wants to “plant the seeds of possibility” to enable the community...

Dixie dairy farmer Brad Collins wants to hear more farming voices in community leadership roles. In 2019 Brad participated in Leadership Great South Coast, a community leadership program that gave him an opportunity to develop his leadership skills. He was...

“I’m paid a reasonable wage; I get free accommodation and I can save money. Most people my age working in hospitality in the city can’t save any money after they pay rent,” says Jessie Weaver who is a dairy supervisor...

Joy Coulson thinks it is vitally important that people with a range of job titles, from varying backgrounds and with differing personalities pursue leadership roles. “Our dairy industry needs industry-experienced people from many and varied backgrounds to bring their unique...

Norman King enjoys the fact he gets to do a bit of everything working in dairy operations at the Ellinbank Research Farm in Gippsland. Apart from daily milking of the 400+ seasonal calving herd, his tasks ranged from feeding and...

A key challenge of agricultural research is how to recruit and retain talented people - which is vitally important to drive the productivity gains that are necessary to keep the Australian dairy industry competitive and profitable. DairyBio and DairyFeedbase collaborative...

Damian Murphy wanted to know which countries are leading the way in young farmer financing and what we need to change to do it better in Australia. As the 2012 Gardiner Dairy Foundation Nuffield Scholar, the Dumbalk North dairy farmer...

One of the great surprises of Stuart Crosthwaite’s Melbourne university years was being elected president of his hometown cricket club in north-east Victoria. As a dairy farming teenager “too shy to put his hand up in class”, Stuart had no...

The Working in Dairy Communities (WIDC) Small Grants program, which is run in a partnership between the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) and Gardiner Dairy Foundation, has awarded $121,584 in grants to support 26 projects in Victoria's three...