Kenzie Hamilton (left), who is visiting from New Zealand, her father Scott Hamilton, who is a Western Dairy board member, and Hithergreen dairy farmer and Western Dairy regional manager Julianne Hill.
A NEW format for the 22nd annual Dairy Information Day (DID) organised by Western Dairy worked well with the wet weather last Thursday.
Dardanup Hall easily accommodated 250 representatives of the local dairy industry, including dairy farmers and service providers, for the formal presentations component of the day, while marquees erected in the car park provided shelter for displays and during morning tea and lunch breaks.
In the afternoon four buses took participants out to brothers Phil and Kevin Depiazzi's nearby farm and the Boyanup farm run by Michael Twomey to hear about their farming operations.
MAL GILL attended for Farm Weekly and took these pictures.
Brendan Evans (left), who works for Neville and Elaine Haddon, Sabina River, Emily Tolland who works for the Negus family at Tutunup and Western Dairy chairman and Busselton dairy farmer Robin Lammie.
Western Dairy board member and Narrikup dairy farmer Bonnie Ravenhill, her husband Ken and Sabina River dairy farmer and last years Dairy Innovation Day host Neville Haddon.
Lauren Dulguime, Southern Wire area manager, with Tristan McFarlane and Colin Goodwin, Elders Bunbury.
Matt Wells (left), Machinery West, Donnybrook, Bill Hartley, Total Ag Contracting, Dardanup, Michael Twomey, Boyanup dairy farmer and one of two afternoon hosts of Dairy Innovation Day inspections and Machinery West dealer principal Mike Ferguson.
Rod Francis (left) and Brayden Hannagan from Nutrien Ag Solutions, Bunbury, had the warmest job at Dairy Innovation Day.
Western Dairy extension officer and Dairy Innovation Day organiser India Brockman with Western Dairy vice chairman and Denmark dairy farmer Andrew Jenkins.
Ruben Zandman (left), Bega Dairy & Drinks procurement, Terry Burnage, business development manager agribusiness, investment and trade, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development and Malcolm Fechney, supplier services manager for Lactalis Australia which owns Harvey Fresh.
