Dr Shawn McGrath

Shawn McGrath grew up on a beef/wool property near Tumbarumba. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at the University of Sydney in 2001, before commencing work in corporate agriculture for Elders Ltd (2002-2009), predominantly in the beef supply chain with production and marketing of domestic beef and export Wagyu, and then in rural finance. In 2010 he returned to southern NSW and changed his career focus to research, with a wool industry-sponsored PhD into the utilisation of dual-purpose wheat followed by an MLA-sponsored project comparing Dorper and Merino production in mixed-farming systems at Wagga Wagga. In August 2015 he commenced in his current position as Lecturer in Whole Farm Management (McCaughey) in the Fred Morley Unit at CSU, with a focus on applied research and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in livestock production and consultancy.