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Population rise on agenda

Dale Serong from Lely Gippsland, Peter Fort from Burra Foods and Andrea Meerwarth from Lely Gippsland. Photo by Jeanette Severs

The population growth of Gippsland was the topic of conversation at breakfast at Farm World in late March.

The annual breakfast is sponsored by CommBank and attracts a large crowd of early arrivals, many of them dairy farmers and local business owners, and a key guest speaker.

This year’s guest speaker was Bernard Salt, demographer and leading social commentator.

Bernard also spoke about the potential for Australia’s agricultural producers to deliver food security globally.

Don, Ryan and Brett McKnight from McKnight Holdings at Stoney Creek. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Scott Gibson from Opteon at Berwick, and Benjamin Rose from Specialised Agribusiness Valuations in the Yarra Valley, attended the breakfast. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Wayne Sanders from Rural Financial Counselling Service with Greg and Sandra Pearce from Grenden Park P/L at Berry’s Creek. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Billy Garcia, Joe McGrath and Henry Garcia, all from Foster North. Photo by Jeanette Severs
John, Janice and Michael Kershaw from West Creek, all took the morning off from milking to attend the Farm World breakfast. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Kate Wallis from CommBank, Andrew Bulmer from Bulmer Farms and Sallie Jones from Gippsland Jersey. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Rod Hayes from Food and Fibre Gippsland, with Ian Anderson from Kings View Jerseys, Bernard Salt (the guest speaker) and Dominic Westerndorf from CommBank. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Rob and Marita Pandolfo from Lardner, who have their dairy farm close by the Farm World site at Lardner Park. Photo by Jeanette Severs