Picture gallery: The Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year 2024
Winners of the The Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year were crowned a gala ceremony at the MCG last week. See all the pictures.
The Altmann family, of Dakara Farms at Murray Bridge in South Australia, took out the top gong in The Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year awards at a gala ceremony at the MCG on Friday night.
Now in their 13th year, the awards honour the best in beef, cropping, dairy, horticulture and sheep farming as well as innovation.
They attracted finalists from every state in Australia and were presented in front of 200 guests.
The Altmanns, led by Jake Altmann, won the dairy category, as well as the overall award.
Fellow South Australian multi-generational farmers the Musolino family, of T Muso & Co at Virginia, took top honours in the horticulture category.
The top beef gong went to the Hammond family of Robbins Island Wagyu at Montagu in Tasmania.
Duncan Young, who grows crops across five different farms in Western Australia’s famed wheatbelt and has a strong focus on soil health, took out the cropping category.
The Kerin family from Yeoval in NSW, who run one of Australia’s biggest stud Merino operations, triumphed as sheep farmer of the year.
The Innovative Farmer of the Year was won by salad and vegetable growers the Said family, of Fresh Select, at Werribee South in Victoria
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