Colin joined NSW DPI in 2005 as a Healthy Soils, Healthy Landscapes Project Officer and has held positions as the Farming Systems Agronomist and the District Agronomist (Forbes).
In his current position as a Research and Development Agronomist, Col conducts farming systems research that aims to enhance the profitability of dryland cropping systems within NSW. Research interests include crop water use efficiency, summer fallow management, crop nutrition, canola agronomy and general dryland farming systems research. Current research projects include summer cover cropping, canola establishment and improving pulse nodulation on acid soils.