HoA: Royal Melbourne Show Episode 1 - Jason Ronald OAM

Welcome to the Humans of Agriculture podcast in collaboration with the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria.

The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) has proudly presented the Royal Melbourne Show since 1855. The Show is Victoria’s largest and most iconic annual community event, attracting around 450,000 visitors over 11 days each year and annually contributes more than $244 million in value to Victoria’s economy.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year, the Royal Melbourne Show was cancelled for only the third time in its 165 year history.

After what has been an incredibly testing year for many people we are VERY excited to be celebrating the Royal Melbourne Show online.

Over the next 11 days we will be hearing stories from a range of people who are all actively involved in the Show and some of them for nearly fifty years!

Today I'm chatting with Jason Ronald. Jason has an incredibly impressive CV and he wears many hats. He's a farmer from the Tallarook region in Central Victoria, President of the Seymour Agricultural and Pastoral Society, Director for the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria and most notably he received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his contribution and services to the community including social welfare, cultural, political and agricultural organisations!

So who better to kickstart this celebration of the show. Today we're chatting about:

- Jason's story and involvement in agriculture in agriculture from a young age

- His grandmothers influence on being community minded and how this has continued through for him with his involvement in many organisations over many decades

- His fathers involvement at the local and Royal Melbourne Show levels

- As well as understanding a bit more about the significance of the show over the years

- We touch on the RASV's various awards and support programs that see people undertake international learning and development opportunities

- The role of the show and the responsibility of the various committees to ensure the issues of today are what is being reflected by the Royal Melbourne Show

- Towards the end I love Jason starting to talk about the role and influence of young people within agriculture and the organisations he is apart of

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