GIA welcomes two new experienced team members
Greenlife Industry Australia is pleased to welcome Barry Naylor and David Hunt to the GIA Team.
Barry Naylor is the new Plant Protection Officer who will operate throughout Queensland and northern New South Wales under the levy funded ‘National Biosecurity and Sustainable Plant Production Program’ (NY20001).
Based in Brisbane, Barry’s 40 years experience in nursery production and horticulture, together with a strong background quality plant production, project management, and tertiary qualifications in horticulture will support growers to promote high health plant production, achieve sustainability efficiencies and foster innovation within individual businesses
As Plant Protection Officer, Barry will take on the following roles and responsibilities:
- Provide on-site support to industry stakeholders in the implementation of key plant protection and sustainable production aspects of the programs within the Australian Plant Production Standard.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of the Australian Plant Production Standard; delivering a range of BMP, sustainability, plant protection and biosecurity services across NIASA, EcoHort and BioSecure HACCP.
- Industry engagement and liaison with production nurseries, greenlife markets and growing media manufacturers throughout QLD and northern NSW across all aspects of sustainable plant production.
David Hunt has been appointed as the Smart Farming Project Officer for the ‘Digital remote monitoring to improve horticultures environmental performance project’.
Based in Brisbane, David’s role is to assist research partners in building an innovative smart monitoring framework to drive improvements in land use, soil, energy and water resources to reduce any impacts on the Great Barrier Reef catchment by production nurseries. This research will lead to knowledge supporting digital monitoring sensors for businesses across Australia.
As the Smart Farming Project Officer, David will take on the following roles and responsibilities:
- Provide input to research partners and identify criteria suitable for digital sensors and monitoring.
- Contribute to the development of an environmental sustainability framework for horticulture that aligns with the broader Horticulture Sustainability Framework that is suitable for digital sensors and monitoring.
- Provide input for mapping existing environmental management systems against the environmental sustainability framework to identify gaps.
- Participate in workshops as required to ensure linkages across existing extension and communication channels.
- Use the data collected to inform on-farm improvements, measure improvements in environmental performance, implement digitised recording systems and communicate this to industry.
