Rodney Birch
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Agriculture
Pulse
Australia
Biography
Rod owns and operates a large scale grain growing property near Coorow, WA. He has considerable experience with multiplication and bulk up of new crop seed varieties with various breeding programs and has implemented an industry accredited quality assurance program across all production processes on the farm.
Research Interest
Rod has held a number of positions in the agricultural industry throughout his career and is currently a director of Australian Grain Technologies (Australia’s largest, and market leading, wheat breeding company), a director of the Institute of Agriculture (University of Western Australia) and is the Chair of the Pulse Council of Grains Industry Association Western Australia (GIWA).
