Rob Egerton-Warburton
Kojunup Western Australia
“Integrated stock and cropping systems and increasing the rate of improvement in the Australian sheep flock”
Robert has been awarded the 2010 Nuffield Scholarship supported by the Grains Research and Development Corporation to research integrated stock-cropping systems. Robert manages a 3000ha mixed sheep and cropping business in southwest Western Australia, with Merinos for wool production and store Merino-Samm first-cross ewes for prime lamb production. He crops canola, barley and wheat using no-till techniques, and additional farm enterprises include distribution of wildflower seed, supply and distribution of electro-dip equipment and the supply of wheat seed.
He plans to visit the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands, South America, South Africa and Europe to investigate grazing and winter wheat varieties and other systems that integrate livestock and cropping as complementary activities.
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