Keith McBride

Chair, AJ & PA McBride
 www.mcbride.com.au

Keith McBride is Chair of AJ & PA McBride, one of the country’s largest wool producers – a business his great-grandfather founded in 1902.

A fourth generation shareholder, he became a director in 1991 and has held the chairman’s position since 2006. He has a degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Adelaide and has extensive practical experience in the agricultural sector, running his own grazing and viticultural properties at Taratap and Cape Jaffa for many years.

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  • Conference Program - 19 March 2021


  • 09:55  - 10:40
    Faraway is found beyond the city boundaries. It’s a place where sheep graze in scrubby bluebush hills and where the McBride family began its pastoral dynasty more than one hundred years ago. AJ & PA McBride is one of the country’s largest wool producers, running in excess of 250,000 merino sheep across ten properties in South Australia and Victoria, and covering more than 1.4 million hectares. Celebrating 100 years in business and into its 6th generation, there are very few family members working in the business, but all 106 shareholders of the AJ and PA McBride company are descendants of Albert McBride, who bought the group’s first Faraway Hill sheep station near Burra in South Australia’s Mid North in 1902. From Faraway Hill to the modern multi-million dollar livestock enterprise of Telopea Downs, this family company has remained committed to the fortunes of the fleece. Join Keith McBride and Nathan Wessling as they discuss: how the diversification of income streams and locations has protected the company from falling prices in different commodities and unpredictable climatic conditions; how they retain and promote positive shareholder engagement; and their goal to become the largest wool producer in Australia.
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