Australia

Neil Lane

Neil Lane

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Dairy Consultant/Director
B Agr. Sc
Australia
neil.lane "at" intelactlimited.com
From a dairy farming background, Neil has considerable consulting experience in providing nutritional advice to dairy farmers to optimise economic performance based on improvements to milk production, animal health and herd fertility.
David Beca

David Beca

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Dairy Consultant/Director
Dip Ag (Dist)
Australia / New Zealand
david.beca "at" intelactlimited.com
David has extensive experience in practical large scale farm management in Australia and New Zealand.  He has specialised in systems analysis of dairy farm profitability and is responsible for the development of the farm financial recording systems and comparative farm analysis used by Intelact.  

Andrew Wright

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Dip Ag, Dip Farm Management
Dip Ag (Dist)
Northern Victoria, Tasmania, Australia
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Andrew is a practicing dairy consultant in Victoria and Tasmania. He has also had extensive dairy farming experience in both Australia and New Zealand, the majority of which has been through managing larger scale dairy operations. In addition he has experience in sheep and beef farm management, and has Diplomas in Agriculture and Farm Management. Andrew has used software programs extensively in practical farm management, including being involved with field testing of software prior to commercial release.

Sam Dunbar

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Agricultural Advisor
B.Agr Sci
Victoria, Australia
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 My interests in dairying systems and on farm consultancy started about 10 years ago when I was pondering what am I am going to do if I partake in an Agricultural Science Degree at La Trobe University.  Dairy farming seemed very appealing because the leading farmers were always using a balance of science and economics to base their management decisions. A decade later, and I still believe dairying has it all.

Whilst at University, I always directed my studies towards the dairy industry. Projects such as studying the effects of body condition on feed intake and pasture substitution was work that was of great value and interest. After University, I partook in some travel/work around Australia. In that time my activities included

  • 8 months on Iffley Station in the Gulf of Carpentaria
  • 8 months with Katherine DPI working on large scale tropical beef trials

In the last 3.5 years, I have been working with Target 10 (Colac) and with Bonlac Foods (Cobden). This has been an excellent building block for me.  Animal nutrition, pasture and crop agronomy, farm business and performance analysis, effluent management, and all the industry issues that revolve around working for a milk company kept the last 3.5 years interesting.

In the future I wish to focus on business analysis, looking at where strengths and opportunities lie. With so much technological jargon given to farmers, I look forward to simplifying the decision making process for our clients.


Angus Drummond

Angus Drummond

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Dairy Consultant 
Dip Agric
Victoria Australia
angus.drummond "at" intelactlimited.com

Based in South West Victoria Angus works in the dairy industry, focussing mainly on farm business systems and pasture management as well as overseeing managers for absentee owners. Business' are analysed and monitored using Red Sky and the Udder energy model. Farm assessments and some government work is also undertaken. Angus has 20 years experience in agriculture and is passionate about seeing clients succeed in the industry.