David Brownhill Australian Summer Grains Conference 2013

David Brownhill

David and his wife Liz, jointly manage Merrilong Pastoral Company, with David’s brother, Gordon and his wife, Anne – covering 6400 hectares, which focus on dryland and irrigated grain production. His key interests are no-till farming, controlled traffic farming systems and high value crops. David is also a founding director of a grower group of 24 farms, AMPS Commercial Pty Ltd, which is committed to information dissemination, structured farming and returning profits to research. He is a director of Crop Optics Australia, which imports innovative farming equipment from the US, most notably the Weedseeker, which has changed no-till spraying practices in Australia. An interest in no-till systems led to the co-development of the Ground Hound Zero till planter, which enabled crops to be planted in heavy residues from previous crops. This innovation led to David receiving his Nuffield Scholarship in 1998 to study spraying technology and business management. David completed a Bachelor of Applied Science - Agriculture degree at Hawkesbury Ag College and graduated with awards in leadership and sportsmanship. David is a past Chairman of the Nuffield Australia Board. David is a director of the RAS foundation. He is involved with junior cricket and junior rugby.