PRODUCER PAPER SPEAKERS
Lynton Arney
Inverbrackie is located near Strathalbyn, South Australia and the Border Leicester stud was founded in 1964 by Lynton’s parents. It has grown from humble beginnings with Lynton purchasing the stud of 130 ewes in 1990. Lynton, together with his wife Claire and two daughters now run 850 adult ewes. An early goal when he took over the stud was to adopt new technology as it became available. Lynton prefers to benchmark the entire flock with LAMBPLAN and no longer takes rams to shows, where results are focussed on one or two sheep. The Inverbrackie stud regularly has rams in the top 1% of the LAMBPLAN database.
Lynton will speak at the 2021 AAABG Conference about the advantage for his Border Leicester stud from mating ewe lambs and ram lambs.
Peter Blackwood
Peter is the owner/manager of Blackwood Corriedales based in Tasmania. He has over 30 years of experience in the sheep industry, with both stud and commercial flocks and his own sheep contracting business managing animal health and welfare.
Peter was Chairman of the Performance Corriedale Group for 3 years and is currently an industry representative on the Sheep Genetics Advisory Committee. He has a wealth of experience in both stud and commercial sector as well as sales, marketing and brand management from his time working with Coopers Animal Health and TP Jones and Co of Launceston.
Peter will speak at the 2021 AAABG Conference on a project initiated by the Performance Corriedale Group to utilise genomics to help maximise genetic improvement for lamb eating quality in Corriedale sheep.
Tim Leeming
Since arriving back on his parents’ property in 1993, Tim has been involved primarily in running self-replacing maternal ewes, establishing a stud called Paradoo Prime in 2006. He has never bought animals without breeding values. Tim and his wife Georgie farm in a 600 mm rainfall zone at Pigeon Ponds, Western Victoria and have built a farming operation that now covers over 1500 ha and annually weans in excess of 11000 lambs and markets 500 plus rams. Since 1997, Tim has used and strongly supported financial benchmarking through the long-standing Livestock Farm Monitor Project administered by Agriculture Victoria.
Tim will speak at the 2021 AAABG Conference on the use of the ‘Paradoo Precision lambing’ system, which underpins high rates of twin and triplet lamb survival and the role of genetics, efficiency and key profit drivers in the Paradoo Prime breeding program.
Sally Martin
Sally began her career working in Landcare and then as a Sheep and Wool Officer with NSW DPI based at Young before establishing SheepMetriX (formerly Sally Martin Consultancy Pty Ltd in 2012), providing independent advice to stud and commercial sheep breeders.
Sally was CEO of MerinoLink Ltd for 6½ Years and is currently an industry representative on the Sheep Genetics Advisory Committee. She has a degree in Applied Science, Agriculture and Farm Management and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Animal Breeding Management.
Sally will speak at the 2021 AAABG Conference on a project with the University of New England, MLA and MerinoLink Ltd, which aims to double genetic gain using genomics and other breeding tools.
Greg Popplewell
Greg has been involved in the development of some of the most innovative and successful red meat breeding programs in Australia today, founding Popplewell Composites from scratch in 2007.
With the technical assistance of the University of Adelaide, Popplewell Composites was the first beef breeding business in the world to adopt full GBLUP genetic evaluation in 2016.
Greg holds a Bachelor degree in Agriculture and a Master’s degree in Animal Breeding Management.
At the 2021 AAABG Conference, Greg will speak on the genetic and collaborative business progress of Popplewell Composites, a Tropical Beef Bull Breeding and Genomics R&D Company.
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