Chris Mirams bio

Chris Mirams manages Woomargama Station, just outside Holbrook in Southern Central NSW.

He sees his role as being to understand and satisfy the demands and objectives of all the stakeholders, including the land, the owners, management, staff and the local and wider community. 

He sees the Station as a long term investment in Australian agriculture, for many years managing it with Natural Resource Management and sustainability in mind.

The mixed property has a self replacing Merino flock, shearing 10 000 sheep, a self replacing Hereford Herd, running 1 000 cattle as well as capital works and maintenance programs.

It is run with an aim to achieve world’s best practice in sustainable agriculture to maximise profit, and to reinvest a large part of that profit to further increase the productivity and value of the property in the long term.

It is made up of quite different land classes, ranging from steep areas with lightly fertilised native pastures to heavy flats sown to high performance ryes.

Each is managed differently, and by matching requirements of the land and stock, the station achieves high carrying capacity, high pasture utilization, 100% ground cover and good top soil and soil organic matter.

The Station is also run on a Property Plan, devised many years ago by the Soil Conservation Service of NSW, which is the blueprint for all subdivision and soil conservation work.

Chris is the Chair of the National Advisory Committee for EverGraze, a national Future Farming Industries CRC, MLA and AWI project which aims to create farming systems based on perennial pastures, improving profit and Natural Resource Management at the same time.

He is a very active member of the Holbrook Landcare group, the AWI wool production advisory group, is currently participating in the Australian Rural Leadership Program and was selected by Holbrook Rotary to represent the club and district on a Group Study exchange in Japan.

Chris says he feels a responsibility to the soul of Woomargama, and the people who have lived and worked there for the past 140 years.