GRDC in conversation: Harm van Rees

Today's 'GRDC in Conversation' podcast interview is with Harm van Rees.

Harm’s story starts in the Netherlands where he was raised until he was 14. Then his father got an engineering job in Australia, bringing the family with him. When his dad got another job back in the UK, Harm was not ready to leave. He studied science and biochemistry which took him all around the world, and when he got back to Australia, he headed to Victoria’s high country to study cattle grazing, but that’s only the beginning. Harm was a touchstone for no till farming in the 1990s and won a GRDC Recognising and Rewarding Excellence Award in 2020 which saw him seek new insights into attitudes towards, and usage of, glyphosate around the world.

GRDC in Conversation is a limited series of the GRDC Podcast. It features in depth, long-form interviews with growers and other experts in the grains industry. It aims to help growers explore research outcomes and ideas through a different perspective.

Interviewer Oli Le Lievre – presenter of Humans of Agriculture – weaves a story not just about the technical innovations but the expertise, history and personal background, influences and motivation of each guest.