We also provide our sincerest thanks to Terry O’Leary, who, after many years on the Melons Australia Board including serving for the last 4 years as Treasurer/Secretary while also fulfilling the role of Executive Officer for a period, has resigned from the Board.
Terry’s insight, guidance and support has been instrumental in bringing Melons Australia to the successful position we are currently in. We wish Terry all the best, and no doubt will see him around the traps.
It was brilliant to celebrate the National Agriculture Day #AgDayAU as part of a national movement to support and show our appreciation for all of our growers! Excellent leadership and coordination by the National Farmers Federation on this important recognition initiative.
Over recent weeks our team have been busy on a number of key priorities, including:
- Preparing our industry submission to the Japan melon import risk assessment public comment process.
- Engaging in a suite of biosecurity meetings.
- Progressing important discussions towards the implementation of our new maturity standards, developed by the Melon Quality Improvement project.
- Continuing our engagement with overseas counterparts and I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Damodar Mall – CEO of Reliance retail in India.
Just to name a few!
We also continue our preparation for the Chinchilla Melon Festival, 13-16 February 2025! This will be an exciting start to what presents as an action packed 2025, including our European Study Tour (email me to flag your interest ASAP), our 30th Anniversary operating as the Peak Industry Body for the amazing Australian melon industry and many more engagement opportunities – stay tuned!
Please reach out to me or the team if there are any questions, concerns or issues you need support with – we're here as an industry representative body to help! You can contact me
by email HERE or call me at +61 407 032 023.
