Pulses go up-market at Rupanyup

Gregor Heard
Updated November 18 2016 - 2:30pm, first published 12:33pm
Rupanyup farmer Scott Niewand hopes a niche market in retail-sized packages of pulses from his family farm will continue to develop.
Rupanyup farmer Scott Niewand hopes a niche market in retail-sized packages of pulses from his family farm will continue to develop.

WHILE the horticulture and livestock sectors have done amazingly well in promoting their products as premium lines through concepts such as the Farmers Market movement, in general it is a niche that has by-passed the broadacre cropping industry.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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