00:00Hi, I'm Grant Pontifex from Paskerville, South Australia.
00:04I'm nominated for the Sustainability in Agriculture Award
00:08as part of the Australian Agriculture Awards.
00:11Together, my wife Jodie, brother Ben and sister-in-law Sarah
00:16operate a fifth-generation family farm, Pontifex Farming.
00:22Jodie and I have three children, the eldest of which came home to the business last year.
00:27A diverse business stretches over two states and an island.
00:33It incorporates irrigated sugarcane production farms in the Burdican, far north Queensland,
00:40sustainable broadacre grain production farms on Newark Peninsula in South Australia
00:46and a producer-to-consumer grain production business on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
00:53I'm a director of Pontifex Farming, managing our South Australian grain businesses
00:58and director and chairman of Kangaroo Island Pure Grain.
01:02We supply, clean and size export broad beans to consumers throughout Southeast Asia
01:11and supply Kangaroo Island genetically modified free canola to Japanese customers
01:18throughout our oil processing partners in Japan.
01:22Our business is built on family, diversity, sustainability and growth.
01:28Good luck to all the nominees.
01:31Good luck to all the nominees.
