Kevin was appointed as a Director
in May 2007 and represents BBIFMAC – the Burdekin Bowen
Integrated Floodplain Management Advisory Committee. This
organisation works in close partnership with NQ Dry Tropics.
Kevin spent 16 years with
Queensland Canegrowers, and the last six of these as chairman of
Inkerman Canegrowers.
He was born on the family cane farm
at Home Hill, and apart from a six year stint at school teaching
and a working holiday in the UK back in the late 1970s, he’s
been there ever since.
Kevin has state-wide and national
recognition in the area of water management and salinity. He
studied how farmers in the Murray Darling handled the problems
there and, as a result, implemented what is termed 'conjunctive use
of water', and encouraged his neighbours and colleagues to do the
same. It is basically blending one third bore water with river
water, recycling it, and more importantly controlling its flow and
distribution.
He firmly believes the Burdekin
land is best utilised for cane growing and sugar farming is still
viable in the Burdekin.
