Denis Howard

What began as a side income for a working mum with three kids has turned into the main bread winner while also creating career opportunities for the family.

Building a new house and expecting their first child in December, one could be forgiven for thinking things couldn't get much better for Xavier Prime and Kimberley Burridge. It did.

On the upper reaches of the Lachlan River, equidistant between Goulburn and Boorowa, is a sixth generation sheep meat farm with a difference.

A passion for growing fresh vegetables which was passed down from her grandparents has led Cheryl McGaffin to create an award-winning Heirloom tomato operation on her eight-hectare (20 acre) Mornington Peninsula property.

HER professional life has taken her around the world, but Dr Rachel Horton said it was the combination of broad opportunities within a regional setting, that attracted her to take up the role as principal at The Armidale School.

With a family farming background since 1886, Bill and Fiona Aveyard could be forgiven for just doing what has always been done on their properties near Tullamore, NSW. That is not the case.

It was necessity which saw Karin Stark and her partner Jon Elder, a fourth generation farmer, look for a solution to a considerable ongoing cost on their 2500 hectare cotton and wheat farm Waverleigh, near Narromine, NSW.

To help producers maximise animal health and growth, Central West Local Land Services held a pasture workshop at Waranilla, near Tullamore, NSW.

For nearly 60 years, Marcus Oldham College has been developing the next generation of agricultural leaders in farming, agribusiness and equine management.