Great Southern Star
Tuesday 6/2/2007 Page: 13
Bruce Beatson has been a dairy farmer in Toora for 40 years and has now moved into beef and alpacas. He says that he has come to a point where he can see the environmental impact on the world by humans. He believes this new approach to environmental issues would have begun to change only within the past 20 years.
Since childhood Bruce has subscribed to National Geographic and yet he says his concerns for the environment have grown only recently.
On his farm in Toora, Bruce had barely planted a tree until 10 years ago and today has planted around 32,000 trees in areas that he saw as less productive as others. This is something he says other farmers could do with land that is perhaps not as financially productive: that is, utilise the land from an environmental aspect.
Bruce has been highly involved in the community, being a director of Bonlac Foods from 1988 until 2000, has been president of the United Dairy Farmers Victoria and is a director of the Bendigo Community Bank in Toora. He is also manager of the Dollar Wind Farm Information Centre.
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