Livestock leader reelected

REPRESENTATION: Lucindale primary producer Amanda Giles remains on the national board of the Cattle Council of Australia board after being re-elected.

REPRESENTATION: Lucindale primary producer Amanda Giles remains on the national board of the Cattle Council of Australia board after being re-elected.

LIVESTOCK SA has welcomed the re-election of Amanda Giles to the board of the Cattle Council of Australia (CCA).

Amanda was elected to the Livestock SA board at its 2018 annual general meeting, held as part of the Growing SA conference.

Livestock SA chief executive Andrew Curtis said he was pleased Ms Giles would also continue with the CCA board.

“She will bring enthusiasm and a modern, strategic perspective to the board,” he said.

“She’s a terrific advocate for the South Australian beef cattle industry and we are very pleased to see her successful re-appointment.”

Ms Giles is a third-generation farmer with her family’s Lucindale business, which breeds and finishes grassfed beef cattle and prime lambs.

She completed a Bachelor of Science (Agricultural Science) at the University of Adelaide, studied for a semester at Michigan State University and worked for 18 months as an animal health adviser for Biosecurity SA.

She has volunteered with CCA for four years as an animal health, welfare and biosecurity policy committee member and has served as Livestock SA’s representative on the CCA board since 2016.

Her main focuses are on market access, consumer perception of the industry and ensuring policy outcomes create a business environment which fosters profitable livestock enterprises.

New South Wales producer Tony Hegarty of Cassilis was elected as CCA’s new president at the meeting as immediate past president Howard Smith completed his four-year term.

Northern Territory cattle producer Markus Rathsmann was elected as the council’s new vice president.