Tim Watts

2017 - Chair, Western Australian Livestock Research Council

2018 -  Member, UWA Future Farm 2050 – Commercial Operations Committee

2015 -  Inaugural Member, Sheep Industry Leadership Council/Sheep Alliance of WA

2010 - Member, Sheep’s Back Advisory Board (extension service of AWI)

2000 – Farmer, Pingelly WA

• Own and manage a 1497 ha farm business – Merino sheep (45%), Crops (55%)
• Intensive grazing techniques
• Cropping: intensive, high-input system-based on no-till, permanent cropping rotation
• Benchmarking of sheep and cropping enterprises for consistent high performance
• Host farmer: Life-Time Wool; Lifetime Ewe Management; WoolPro; Pastures from Space

Contributes to second year unit in Agriculture Science major AGRI2201

Key team member in the UWA research project focussed on oestrogenic pastures including as a host of on-farm experiments and research.