Adam Russell from Castrol, Tim Roscoe from Evans Petroleum, Grahame Jackson from Waratah North, Chris and Callum Moscript from Leongatha South and John Schelling from Evans Petroleum.
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Jeanette Severs
This year marked the 25th anniversary of the South Gippsland Dairy and Farming Expo.
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Formerly known as the South Gippsland Dairy Expo, the event originated in Poowong and has been at Korumburra for nearly half its history.
“The Lions Club of Strzelecki started this event 25 years ago to make a one-stop shop for dairy farmers to attend, see the latest machinery, conduct their business and go home to their busy lives,” club president James O’Connor said.
This year’s expo, on September 4 and 5, was an opportunity for the club to honour its inaugural sponsors, especially its gold sponsors, as well as businesses that have more recently come on board.
A sponsors breakfast was held on the Thursday morning before the expo got under way to honour the businesses.
“As a farmer, you want to see the latest equipment and consider how you can use it in your farm’s environment,” James said.
“Through the interest of our sponsors, we have been able to hold on to the main aim of this expo, to bring value to the dairy farmer.”
In the spirit of the recent Olympic Games, a gold medal and a large box of chocolates was given to each sponsor representative.
Note was made of inaugural and ongoing gold sponsors Reid Stockfeeds, GippsDairy and Saputo Dairy Australia (originally Murray Goulburn).
Other long-term gold sponsors are Rabobank, Burra Foods, Easy Dairy Automation Systems, Tow n Fert, Evans Petroleum and South Gippsland Shire Council.
More recent gold sponsors have been GEA, ProDairy and Greenmate Agriculture.
Silver sponsors are Poowong Dairy and Hardware and SRH.
There are several new gold sponsors to add to this cohort in 2024. They are Brandt, Vic Silos, Dairy Pumping System, nbn local and Lely Center Gippsland.
“Along with these sponsors, the Lions club has been fortunate to have great media partners in Dairy News Australia, Warragul Gazette and Sentinel Times,” James said.
“Thank you to those newspapers for their tireless work to help promote the expo.”
Paul Hurst and Dr Rob Bonanno represent ProDairy.
Graham Watt, from Vic Silos in Maffra, is a long-time exhibitor at the expo.
Welcoming expo attendees at the Reid Stockfeeds site are Angie Brister, Dom Smita with two-day-old lamb Snickers and Patrick Ludgate.
Saputo Dairy Australia’s Penny Johnson and Joel Dutton.
Rabobank representatives (from left) Rohan Lomax, Jessica Williams, Cameron de Kok, Hannah Sturgiss and Alex Bennett.
Jonathan Nurse, Mark Brewer, Kathryn Fox, Mark Haynes and Juergen Steen, of GEA Farm Technologies Australia. Every year, GEA has provided a dairy milking robot for practical demonstrations at the South Gippsland Dairy Expo.
At the GippsDairy site are Veronica McLeod, Stephanie Green, Zoe Carter and Kim Price.
Neil Parker from Tow n Fert.
Shelly Halpy and David Chandler from Easy Dairy Automation Systems in Shepparton, with an Easy draft gate.
Brandt representatives (from left) Andrew Randall, Jake Peters, Krisha Marchenko and Gareth Fox with a John Deere 6195M 195-horsepower tractor with a Kuhn rake with twin rotors.
Nil Netzer and Glen Monson represent Lely Center Gippsland.
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Jeanette Severs
Renee and Tim Hardacre and Robert Griggs, all from Nerrena, with Burra Foods Australia’s Peter Fort (second from right).
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Jeanette Severs
Westfalia Warragul’s Mark Andrew with a 15,000-litre milk vat.
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Jeanette Severs
At the Greenmate Agriculture site are Peter Briscoe, Ben Christensen and Kylie Dixon.
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Jeanette Severs
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