bovada casino:GrainGrowers’ Board
GrainGrowers’ Board
Rhys Turton
Chair
Rhys Turton
Chair
Rhys Turton is a grain grower from York, Western Australia where he grows a range of crops including cereals, pulses, canola and hay. Rhys is a grower director of GrainGrowers. Rhys has worked in agricultural organisations both in Australia and internationally, giving him a thorough understanding of international trade and market access.
Richard Konzag
Director
Richard Konzag
Director
A grain grower at Mallala, SA, Richard produces a wide variety of cereals, pulses and oilseeds. Richard served for six years on the Advisory Board of Agriculture, and seven years on the GRDC’s Southern Panel which included the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Grains Advisory Panel. He was also a non-executive director and Chair of the Australian Grain Growers Co-op board and has served on the Rural Business Support Board since 2019.
Richard has experience in corporate governance, strategic and business planning, financial management and planning, implementation and project planning and oversight and graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2015.
Julia Hausler
Director
Julia Hausler
Director
Julia Hausler is a grower director of GrainGrowers. Julia operates a successful family farming operation in Victoria’s Wimmera region. She is highly strategic and annually benchmarks their farm business. Julia is an engaged and effective Board Director of GrainGrowers and is the Chair of GrainGrowers' People and Culture Committee.
In her six years on the Board, Julia has positively contributed to governance standards, a refreshed strategy, investment portfolio growth, and has represented GrainGrowers nationally and internationally.
Julia was previously a member of the GrainGrowers National Policy Group. Julia holds a Bachelor of Economics, Master of Business (Agribusiness) and has 25 years’ experience in agriculture. Her expertise in marketing, accumulation, education, financing, and rural policy provides an excellent basis for her board work. Julia actively contributes to her local community.
Julia is the past Chair of the Rural Northwest Health Board and Vice Chair Grampians Region Health Alliance and current member of the Birchip Cropping Group Research Committee.
Nigel Corish
Deputy Chair
Nigel Corish
Deputy Chair
Nigel is a fourth-generation farmer from Goondiwindi QLD with over 20 years’ of farming and business management experience, and is the Managing Director of New Leaf Ag Pty Ltd, a family owned food and fibre company. Nigel is a GrainGrowers Director for the Northern Region and sits as the chair of GrainGrowers’ Grains Sustainability Steering committee, and Audit and Risk committee.
With a Bachelor of Applied Science Agronomy from the University of Queensland, Nigel’s work across agriculture has been recognised as Australian Cotton Grower of the Year and ABC Rural Australian Young Farmer of the Year. Nigel also received a Nuffield Scholarship. Nigel currently sits on the board of both Cotton Seed Distributors and Ability Agriculture.
Ian Gourley
Director
Ian Gourley
Director
Ian is a grower director, a second-generation grain grower in northwest NSW.
Ian has over 25 years’ experience in the grains industry and has been a part of GrainGrowers National Policy Group, president of Dryland Cotton Research Association since its inception in 2014, and heavily involved in the Northern Grower Alliance establishment.
Having worked across many areas of the grains industry including research, production, transport, and marketing, Ian has had the chance to view the industry from many different perspectives.
Jane Bennett
Non-Grower Director
Jane Bennett
Non-Grower Director
Jane Bennett has over 30 years of experience working in agrifood businesses across Tasmania and the United Kingdom. She is the current Chair of Hop Products Australia and is a non-executive director of Nuffield Australia. She previously held the position of Managing Director of Tas Foods and was a non-executive director for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CSIRO, Tasmanian Ports Corporation and the Australian Farm Institute.
Richard Norton
Non-Grower Director
Richard Norton
Non-Grower Director
Richard Norton has held executive positions in retail, innovation, logistics, marketing and agribusiness for over 30 years. He is currently the CEO of Food Agility, delivering innovation programs for the Australian agrifood industry and was previously the managing Director of Meat and Livestock Australia from 2014-19. Previous Board positions include Agrium Asia Pacific, Australian Wheat Board, Landmark Harcourts, Australian Wool Handlers and AuctionsPlus.