35-year-old vegetable grower Daniel Hoffman from Penfield, South Australia has been named as the 2019 Young Grower of the Year.
The award, sponsored by Corteva Agriscience, was announced at the AUSVEG National Awards for Excellence held at the Hort Connections Gala Dinner in Melbourne tonight.
| Business | Thorndon Park Produce |
| Expertise | Growing vegetables! |
| Crop Focus | Bunch Line vegetables |
| Methods | Intense outdoor horticulture |
| Commercial methods and others such as IPM | |
| Business | Maisel Ag Pty Ltd (Trading as Rocky Top Farms) |
| Expertise | Bachelor of Agribusiness and Applied sciences |
| Crop Focus | Pawpaw/Papaya, Limes |
| Methods | IPM, pulse irrigation, natural biological control |
| and constant pest and dsease monitoring | |
| Business | Jackson Agricultural Company |
| Expertise | Grower |
| Crop Focus | Custard Apples and Macadamias |
| Methods | Hybrid of natural sequence farming and |
| IPM adapted to horticulture | |
| Business | Hearman, Ag Orchard and Nursery |
| Expertise | Fruit grower and nurseryman |
| Crop Focus | Large tonnage with high packout.Big trees for nursery. |
| Methods | Conventional |
| Business | Langmaid Harvesting |
| Expertise | Horticulture, Contract harvesting (Grain/Seed crop) |
| Crop Focus | Vegetables (Cauilflower, Beans, Peas, Potatoes, |
| Poppies, Pyrethrum, Cabbage, Parsley, Carrot) | |
| Methods | Integrated Pest Management |
| Expertise | Corn and beans |
| Crop Focus | Tropical Fruits, Vegetable Production |
| Methods | Finding alternate inputs to the conventional way. |
| Utilising alternate nutritional sources. Improving soils |
| Business | Hoff Family Trust |
| Expertise | Plant nutrition and fertiliser. Pest and plant health management. |
| Crop Focus | Tomatoes, capsicums, eggplant, cucumber, bunch lines |
| Methods | IPM/Biodynamic |
| Current Focus | Harvesting, planting, pest/disease management and irrigation |
| Business | Corrigan Produce Farms |
| Expertise | Farming |
| Crop Focus | Baby Cos, Celery, Kale, Leeks, Silverbeet, Celeriac, Pak Choy, Onions |
| Methods | Integrated Pest Management |
| Favourite Beneficial Bug | Lady Bugs - They're cute! |
| Business | Redgold Pty Ltd |
| Expertise | Co-ordination of cropping |
| Crop Focus | Spinach and lettuce |
| Methods | Farm with love |
| Favourite Beneficial Bug | Lacewing |
Victorian mushroom producer Chris McLoghlin of The Organic Mushroom Farm has taken out this year’s prestigious AUSVEG Young Grower of the Year Award.
The award, sponsored by Corteva Agriscience™, the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, was announced at the Gala Dinner at the 2018 Hort Connections Conference held in Brisbane on Wednesday 20th June, 2018.
Chris is the founder and director of The Organic Mushroom Farm which markets the Mycelia Organics brand of mushrooms through independent grocers and the major retailers nationally. The Farm is the largest certified organic mushroom farming company in Australia.
| Business | The Organic Mushroom Farm |
| Expertise | Director |
| Crop Focus | Mushrooms |
| Methods | Certified Organic |
| Business | Bulmer Farms |
| Expertise | Horticulture |
| Crop Focus | Salad lines and baby broccoli |
| Methods | Balanced |
| Business | McCain Foods Limited |
| Expertise | Agronomist |
| Crop Focus | Potatoes |
| Favourite Beneficial Bug | Ladybird and Hoverfly - they eat a LOT of bad bugs |
| Business | Monika’s Organics |
| Expertise | Manager - All Operations |
| Crop Focus | Bunch Lines |
| Methods | Certified Organic |
| Business | Scotties Point Farms |
| Expertise | Vegetable Production |
| Crop Focus | Onions, Broccoli and Beetroot |
| Methods | Conventional |
| Business | Corrigan Produce Farms |
| Expertise | Farming |
| Crop Focus | Baby Cos, Celery, Kale, Leeks, |
| Silverbeet,Pak Choy, Onions | |
| Methods | Integrated Pest Management |
| Business | Willarra Gold |
| Expertise | Farmer/Grower |
| Crop Focus | Tropical Fruits, Vegetable Production |
| Methods | Permaculture and IPM - We work with what |
| we’ve got with soil health and nutrition |
