Australian Agricultural Company Chairman Stephen Lonie has announced that David Farley has been appointed AACo Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, commencing on 1 December 2009.
David Farley’s career began in 1975 as a jackeroo and he has solid experience in Northern NSW and the cotton industry, spending a couple of decades up the top of the tree of 2 of Australia’s best known cotton-related companies. David was Managing Director of Colly Cotton Limited for 16 years (when it reached the top ten of cotton-trading companies, worldwide) and Chief Executive Office of Calcot. He has been most commonly quoted in recent years in relation to water management issues, such as water trading rights, an issue especially pertinent to the specific agricultural sector he has spent most of his working life in – irrigated cropping – in particular, cotton growing.
David Farley owns Matrix Commodities, a NSW-based agricultural commodity trading and equity investment company with offices in Narrandera and Sydney; and he has been on a number of agriculture-related boards. One is Tandou, a massive irrigated cropping enterprise growing citrus, grapes, grains and cotton on Lake Tandou south of Menindee (NSW). Tandou also runs some stock, but the large flock of fine-wool Merinos that were the historic basis of Tandou’s production, have been destocked in favour of the far less labour intensive wool-shedding Dorper, a sheep-meat breed from South Africa.
David started his career as a jackaroo in 1975, apparently on the famous NSW Southern Riverina Merino sheep stud ‘Boonoke’, which was owned by Rupert Murdoch (News Ltd) at the time.
Tags: Pastoral companies, Boonoke