Stephen Ball

Nuffield Australia 2010 scholarship winner

South Australian producer Stephen Ball has been awarded a 2010 Nuffield Scholarship sponsored by the Grains Research and Development Corporation to investigate direct seeding systems.

Stephen and wife Nikki Hannaford farm 600ha in the Gilbert Valley, in South Australia’s lower-north region. They produce cereals, legumes and oilseeds using no-till methods and have recently destocked the property of sheep entirely to advance no-till and canopy management copping techniques. They have also established a 2300 head commercial rabbit enterprise, with potential to expand.

Stephen plans to visit Chile, Paraguay and Brazil in South America as well as Canada and the United Kingdom to study zero-till farming and to investigate rabbit production techniques in Spain and France.

PO Box 490
Riverton, SA, 5412
Phone 08 8847 2310
Mobile 0407 884 723
Email farmdog64@bigpond.com