Rowan Paulet

Rowan Paulet
Flynns Creek Victoria
“Studying the integration of livestock and cropping in high rainfall zones.”
Rowan is a Gippsland producer and has been awarded the 2010 Nuffield Scholarship supported by the Grains Research and Development Corporation, to study the integration of livestock and cropping in high rainfall zones. Rowan co-manages a mixed family farm enterprise across 1600ha near Traralgon, with his parents and brother. They run a 3000-head self-replacing fine wool Merino flock and prime lambs, 300 head beef herd and have a summer and winter cropping program, with some spray and flood irrigation. He plans to visit the United Kingdom, US, Canada and New Zealand to study how other countries have overcome issues related to cropping in high rainfall areas, and strategies for managing cultural change in farming communities like those in Gippsland which are increasingly diversifying from grazing into mixed cropping and livestock systems.