George joined the RCS team in May 2019 and is based at our Yeppoon office.
George grew up in north-western Qld on a station where his parents, graduates of GrazingforProfit®, ran a cattle trading enterprise under a cell-grazing system. Growing up at a time where large changes were being made on the family property, he came to understand the impact of grazing management on ecology and that healthy profits are underpinned by healthy landscapes.
George has extensive experience across several industries and locations, from working on large scale breeding blocks in the Gulf, to the channel country in Central-Western Queensland. He joined the RCS team from Goondiwindi where he spent two and half years working on a large-scale irrigated cotton and dryland cereal cropping farm along the Macintyre River.
George currently plays a number of roles within RCS – primarily as a Senior Advisor to individuals, family and corporate agricultural businesses including business analysis and benchmarking for the ProfitProbe® (now part of the FarmEye software suite) support team and developing carbon project-specific land management strategies. George is involved in the management of projects running in Reef Catchment areas where he plays a part in landholder engagement and planning as well as liaising with indigenous pastoralists, government agencies and other organisations to ensure the delivery of project milestones.
More recently, George has moved into a role as Facilitator of the GrowthLink and ExecutiveLink® programs and is an RCS short course teacher.
George is committed to developing resilient, productive and profitable farming and grazing businesses that support happy, healthy rural communities.
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