Justin Gilmour grew up with 10,000 sheep for neighbours. That might not be the norm for most young Australians, but when your family runs a 6000-hectare wheat and sheep farm near the town of Carnamah, 300km north of Perth, that's life.
“I think growing up on a farm was pretty enviable. Having that sense of freedom and being in a small community where a number of the families were fourth-generation family friends is pretty special. We even had the benefit of growing up with our grandparents on the farm,” he says.
“My brother might not agree that I was much use, but it was an expectation that everyone helped out around the farm, whether that be rounding up sheep, jumping on a tractor at seeding time or shifting machinery at harvest.”
Gilmour's prowess as a farmer was never going to be tested, though, because he knew early on that a
