Mr Richard Heath

Biography

Richard grew up on a family farm on the Liverpool Plains in North West NSW. He managed the cropping operations of the farm for nearly two decades. Crops grown included wheat, barley, chickpeas, faba beans, canola, sorghum, sunflowers, mung beans and cotton. Richard has been an early adopter of new farming technologies and travelled on a Nuffield Scholarship in 2003 researching precision applications of fertiliser. Richard is now the General Manager of Research for the Australian Farm Institute where he is responsible for carrying out research projects and compiling reports on a broad range of farm and agriculture related issues. Prior to this role Richard was Associate Professor of Agronomy and Farm Management at the University of Sydney responsible for management of the Universities North West farms group including the Plant Breeding Institute at Narrabri. Richard was a member of the Northern Panel of the GRDC from 2005 – 2011 and was a director of Nuffield Australia Farming Scholars from 2011 – 2017.

Research Interest

Finance, Business management, molecular Biology