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2025 WA Australians of the Year Dianne Haggerty and Ian Haggerty
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1/20/2025
Meet Your Australians - 2025 WA Australians of the Year Dianne Haggerty and Ian Haggerty. ACM is proud to be media partner for the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards.
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We're farmers out in the eastern wheat belt of Western Australia, about three hours northeast
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of Perth, and we farm 26,000 hectares out in what's classed as a brittle environment.
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And we see it very important that we can produce, with our varying climatic conditions, reliable
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food and fibre while taking care of country.
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We're pretty fortunate through our farming history we've had exposure to about 36 different
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farming properties, and that gave us a really broad range of experience to look and experiment.
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One of the key things we've realised and learnt from watching nature is just as that diversity
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of plants and microorganisms increased, so did the health impacts we could see through
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the animals that were there, and the plants and the crops were growing, so everything's
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interdependent.
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We really look at what's under our feet.
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A tablespoon of true, living, healthy soil has more microorganisms in it than people
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on this planet.
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A microbiome in the soil is very similar to the microbiome in our gut.
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What we've done over a period of a number of years is actually we went out and learnt
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a lot of knowledge from all around the world, speaking with leading scientists, and that
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pieced together an agricultural system to actually nurture those microbiomes in the
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soil, because we soon realised with the human health that we're actually providing nourishment
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for, you know, the community.
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Food is a nourishing, health-giving, medicinal thing that we actually consume.
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The moment we realised we're making an impact was when consumers started feeding back to
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us of well, of actually the quality of this food and what they were getting out of it,
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and the global community, farmers from all over the globe, started approaching us and
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wanting to see what we're doing.
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We are able to talk to lots of different people and lots of different players and make
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a difference there by helping share that awareness.
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People are really interested in how they might be able to contribute to looking after the
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climate and the environment and biodiversity, but also still maintaining producing food
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and fibre for the populations.
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We have growing world populations and it's really important that we continue to feed
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those people and clothe those people, but really respecting our planetary boundaries
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at the same time.
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So looking after our ecosystem, ensuring that can thrive so we can continue to thrive as
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humans within this beautiful planet.
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