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Photo_Lucinda_CorriganMrs Lucinda Corrigan

Chair

Lucinda Corrigan, the middle of five children, was born and raised on a western Riverina sheep station. She was educated by her mother Audrey Bell by correspondence for the first four years, spent three years at Coleambally Public school and completed the last seven years at Abbotsleigh Girls School in Wahroonga.

She studied Agricultural Science at Sydney University, majoring in animal science and graduating with first class honours in 1981. She spent eight years working with the newly developed cashmere goat industry, becoming Executive Officer of the Australian Cashmere Growers Association which she ran for three years, until her marriage to Bryan in 1986. She continued working in public relations for the association until 1989.

In 1994 Bryan and Lucinda won the inaugural NSW Seedstock Producer of the Year competition. In 1998 she was selected to undertake the Australian Rural Leadership Program. In her final report to the programme, she elucidated a vision “to be an agent of change in the grazing industries’.

Since that time she has served on a number of research boards, including the Cooperative Research Centre for Cattle and Beef Quality, the CRC for Plant Based Management of Dryland Salinity, and the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies. She is currently Deputy Chairman of the CRC for Future Farm Industries, a major research initiative across Southern Australia, developing perennial farming systems for dryland agriculture. This CRC also covers the important areas of improving water usage, adaptation to climate change and improving the resilience of these farming systems. She has served on the board of Meat & Livestock Australia since 2007.

Lucinda also speaks regularly to groups about the future of innovation in agriculture, business management, the people side of farm businesses. She mentors a number of young people interested in agriculture and veterinary science. In 2007 Lucinda was recognized for her contribution to Animal Breeding and Genetics being awarded the Helen Newton Turner medal, the first woman to receive the award from the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. She maintains a deep interest in research and development for southern Australian grazing systems, international and domestic markets for Australian red meat, and research into adaptation for climate climate change.

                  

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