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Gallery | Connect, Care and Grow day one

Dairy farmers Jacinta Clark of Mt Gambier (South Australia) and Lisa Vening of Hedley (Victoria) each own farms with robot milking units. Photo by Jeanette Severs

Lely Australia held a national two-day conference, in Gippsland in late July, attended by dairy farmers from throughout the country.

Lely Australia was established in 1974, which made this conference a 50-year celebration for the family-owned company.

The first robot milking unit was installed in Gippsland in 2001, which made the region relevant for the gathering on July 25 and 26 this year.

The first day of the Connect, Care and Grow conference was at West Gippsland Arts Centre in Warragul, and attendees heard from key Lely personnel and dairy farmers.

Also on the first day, a number of awards were presented to dairy farmers using Lely robot units.

Here are photos of some of the attendees on day one.

Peter Fort from Burra Foods at Korumburra (Victoria) and Cameron de Kok from Rabobank at Warragul (Victoria). Photo by Jeanette Severs
Dairy farmers Peter Joyce from Strzelecki (Victoria) and Grant Williams from Hallora (Victoria). Both farmers employ robot units in their dairies. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Dairy farmers Leesa Williams of Hallora (Victoria) and Margaret Lockett from Neerim North (Victoria). Each farmer owns two farms that have robot milking units installed. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Dairy farmers John van Adrichem from Togari (Tasmania) and Josh Clark of Mt Gambier (South Australia) each operate farms with robot milking units. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Dairy farmers from south-west Victoria at the conference were Oscar Baxter from Lang and Bailey Vines from Simpson, with Lachlan Rosolin and Max Bond from Coorimungle. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Dairy farmers Josh Bishop and Rowan Stokes are in partnership at Smithton, Tasmania. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Larissa Joyce from Strzelecki, Sarah O’Brien from Denison and Rose Atherton from Drouin are all dairy farmers in Gippsland (Victoria). Photo by Jeanette Severs
South Australian dairy farmers Asher Jacobs and Perrin Hicks from Fleurieu, and Michael and Oscar Kowald from Mt Torrens. Photo by Jeanette Severs
Alice Norling from JLL Australia (Gippsland), Alex Hucker-Stewart from DLL, and Annabelle McLellan from JLL Australia (Gippsland). Photo by Jeanette Severs
Lely Australia employees Jason Koenig (Gippsland), Jim Guy (Mt Compass, SA) and Jack Barraza (Melbourne). Photo by Jeanette Severs
GippsDairy CEO Karen McLennan and Emma Boerekamps from DLL Group (Sydney). Photo by Jeanette Severs
Jeff and Hailie McCauley, Corafield Farms, Cora Lynn (Victoria) and Colin Young from Darnum (Victoria) own farms with robot milking units. Photo by Jeanette Severs

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