Livestock SA Board
Joe Keynes
President
Joe is a partner in Keyneton Station, a family farming business, operating at Keyneton and in the South East, principally grazing Merino sheep, Angus cattle and first-cross lambs. Joe has had a long involvement in regional and state organisations including the Natural Resources Management Council and the SA Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board. He has also been a member of LambEx 2014 Committee and the Cattle Council of Australia Research, Development, Extension and Sustainability Sub-Committee. He believes a strong Livestock SA is needed to advocate to government and industry for future policy development and investment in programs that support agriculture. Joe is currently the South Australian representative on WoolProoducers Australia. He is also Chair of the PPSA Natural Resources Committee.
Contact Joe on 0428 648 235 and email
Penny Schulz
Vice-president
Penny runs a sheep and beef operation in the Upper South East district of Field with her husband Jason and mother-in-law Joanne, producing first-cross lambs and operating a beef seedstock operation, Raven Limousin and Limflex. Penny works off-farm managing projects and delivering workshops for the sheep, beef and dairy industries and casual university teaching in animal genetics and business management. Penny is the 2014 South Australian RIRDC Rural Woman of the Year and is a board director of the Australian Beef Industry Foundation. She has been a member of the SA Angus Committee and Australian Angus Youth Management Committee.
Contact Penny on 0417 853 094 and email
Gillian Fennell
Treasurer
Gillian Fennell was born and bred in North West Queensland, before moving to SA almost 15 years ago with her husband and his family when they sold their Qld holdings and purchased Lambina Station – a million acre rangelands cattle station in the Far North of SA, where they run a herd of Charbray breeders. Gillian is President of the Remote & Isolated Children’s Exercise and is also currently the SA Representative for Australian Women in Agriculture, a non-profit incorporated organisation established in 1994. It is Australia’s peak organisation for women across all areas of agriculture. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Contact Gillian on 08 8670 1071 and email
Allan Piggott
Board member
Allan is a third generation primary producer from Moorlands in the Murray Mallee. He and his family farm 2300 hectares producing grain, prime lambs and rams for the prime lamb industry. He has been involved in the South Australian red meat industry for 35 years and has built an extensive network of contacts. He is chairman of the SA Sheep Industry Blueprint, and initiative of Livestock SA and the SA Sheep Advisory Group. Allan chaired the successful LambEx 2014 conference organising committee, which was held in Adelaide, and is currently a member of the SA Sheep Advisory Group and Royal Adelaide Show Executive Councillor.
Contact Allan on 0407 580 925 and email
Bill Nosworthy
Board member
Bill operates Lake Hamilton Station at Sheringa, near Elliston, on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula, with wife Jenny, father Bill, long-term worker Sam and three daughters. They run about 5000 Merinos, plus weaners and lambs over about 18,000 hectares, including 7000ha of native vegetation. The focus is on wool production and excess stock are fattened at a block at Lock and then sold. They also crop about 300 hectares to wheat and oats. Bill is passionate about ensuring the voices of Eyre Peninsula farmers are heard in management and policy development in Livestock SA and believes the new look agro-political structure in SA is long overdue and the way forward for the industry.
Contact Bill on 0428 890 618 and email
Jamie Heinrich
Board member
Jamie grew up on his family’s 880 hectare sheep farm, Ella Matta, on Kangaroo Island. He completed a university degree in International Business and Marketing at the University of South Australia, followed by three years working at South Australia’s biggest meat processor Thomas Foods International, in the meat export and livestock departments. Since then he has re-joined the family farm full time and hopes to remain there indefinitely. In late 2014 he was a Youth Ambassador with the Sheep Meat Council of Australia, and attended the 2015 and 2016 American Sheep Industry Conference in the United States.
Contact Jamie on 0427 361 830 and email
Kate McLachlan
Board member
Kate McLachlan is a fifth-generation South Australian livestock producer based at her family’s property at Gawler River, north of Adelaide. She and her husband Craig work alongside Kate’s father Bill to run the family’s farming operation, Newbold, producing Poll Dorset and White Suffolk prime lamb sires, grain and hay. She is currently the Promotions Officer on the South Australian Poll Dorset Committee. She works off-farm for Elders Rural Services where she is currently employed as their Marketing Manager.
Contact Kate on 0424 173 276 and email
Mark Dennis
Board member
Livestock producer Mark Dennis’ family has farmed at Koppio on the Lower Eyre Peninsula since 1965. Today the family runs 2500 ewes for wool, prime lambs and stud sheep, 40 breeder cattle and crop wheat, canola and lupins. Mark was a member of the former SA Farmers Federation organisation, serving on their Nature Resources Committee for 10 years. He has also been on the Advisory Board of Agriculture for eight years, including serving as Chairperson for three years, which included being Chairperson of the Agriculture Bureau of SA.
Contact Mark on 0428 844 250 and email
Richard Halliday
Board member
Richard has worked in the wool industry all his life. He is the principal partner of Callowie Pty Ltd and Callowie Poll Merino Stud – a family farming business which he runs with his wife Jacquie and three children Sarah, Angus and Thomas at Bordertown. It is a mixed farming enterprise of stud and commercial Merino sheep, wool, prime lamb production, lucerne seed and hay. Richard was the inaugural President of Livestock SA, relinquishing this position in December 2014 after he was elected National President of WoolProducers Australia. He stepped down from his four-year term as WPA president in November 2018. He is also a member of the SA Sheep Advisory Group and a facilitator of the Rural Industries Skills Training Lifetime Ewe Management program.
Contact Richard on 0428 854 759 and email
Amanda Giles
Board member
Amanda Giles is a third-generation farmer within her family’s business which breeds and finishes grassfed beef cattle and prime lambs in the South East. Prior to this she completed a Bachelor of Science (Agricultural Science) at University of Adelaide, studied for a semester at Michigan State University and worked for 18 months as an Animal Health Adviser for Biosecurity SA. She has volunteered with the Cattle Council of Australia (CCA) for four years as a member of the animal health, welfare and biosecurity policy committee and has served as Livestock SA’s representative on the CCA board since 2016. Her main focuses are on market access, consumer perception of our industry and ensuring policy outcomes create a business environment which fosters profitable livestock enterprises. She is passionate about ensuring livestock producers voices are heard and regularly attends Livestock SA’s southern
branch meetings.
Contact Amanda on 0408 236 069 and email
Ex-officio Board Members
Brad Bateman
Brad Bateman operates a prime lamb and beef operation at Millicent. Lambs are produced for the export market and beef is grown to target the EU and Pasturefed Cattle Assurance System markets. Brad studied a Bachelor of Agriculture at the University of Adelaide and graduated in 2005. After university Brad worked for a private consulting firm located in the South East before moving back to the family farm. Brad’s other roles include being a member of the South Australian Sheep Advisory Group, a member of the Box Flat Dingo Control committee and member of the South Australian Agriculture Bureau.
Contact Brad on 0408 848 002 and email
Peter Lauterbach
Board member
Peter ran a mixed farming operation near Peake with wife Renate. He completed an apprenticeship and worked as a mechanic for seven years before returning to the family farm in 1977 and since then, he has been a full-time farmer producing mainly grain and wool. Goats were introduced to the farm 25 years ago and Peter ran a herd of 160 breeding does mated to Boer bucks. Kids were sold to the domestic market. Peter has been involved in goat industry committees including the Australian Cashmere Growers Association SA Region and the former SA Farmers Federation goat and livestock committees. He currently represents Livestock SA on the Goat Industry Council of Australia, holding the position of treasurer.
Contact Peter on 0427 743 026 and email
