The 2025 SA Livestock Advisor Update
Wednesday the 29th October
Marion Hotel, Adelaide
We’re working on an exciting line up of speakers. More details on the program coming soon, keep an eye out on socials. Looking forward to seeing you there!
About our Speakers
Nathan Scott
Consultant, Achieve Ag Solutions
Nathan has a background in prime lamb production, and a passion for improving the productivity and profitability of livestock enterprises. He works with producers to increase conception rates, improve lamb survival, lift growth rates, and hone overall management.
Nathan is the leading Australian provider of advice in the practical use of electronic identification within stud and commercial sheep and cattle enterprises.
He is also a renowned keynote speaker within the industry with a love of captivating, motivating and inspiring audiences of all types. His presentations contain a unique blend of science, humour and inspiration to challenge traditional thinking.
Nathan provides advice to individual clients, works with a number of producer groups, is a keynote speaker and is involved within various industry projects. He is based in Inverleigh, Victoria.
Kathryn McEwen
Global Lead - Working With Resilience, Co-Founder Perspective, Organisational Psychologist & Executive Coach.
Kathryn leads Working With Resilience, a global consortium of practitioners and researchers who use her work to create resilient workplaces. She has written three books on personal and team resilience and has developed the Resilience at Work Toolkit, a set of evidence-based assessments measuring factors that promote workplace resilience.
In parallel to this role, she works as a consulting organisational psychologist, executive coach and mediator. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and Association for Coaching and has more than 35 years expertise spanning all aspects of team and leader development and performance.
Jim Shovelton
Director and Senior Consultant, Meridian Agriculture
Jim is a Director and Senior Advisor at Meridian Agriculture. He has a background in pasture agronomy in the medium - high rainfall zones of eastern Australia. Jim’s based at Euroa in NE Victoria, and holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and a Diploma of Business in Project Management.
He developed and managed the Grassland’s Productivity Program/Triple P Program evaluating the potential productivity in 1200 paired paddock comparison in SE Australia over a ten year period. He managed AWI’s Wool 4 Wealth extension program in NSW and was involved in the development of MLA’s 2011 Feedbase Investment Plan. He was the lead author for MLA’s Research and Development Priorities for southern Australian pastures and lucerne.
