Rebecca Phillips

• Reid’s since December 2025 in Sales & Nutrition. Loving this – out farmer facing and being involved with the customers and their farming business and stock.
• Dairy Australia – Farm Engagement
• Education – periods with both Notre Dame College and GOTAFE
• Private farm consultancy – when my children were very young
• Project work (VFF, GBCMA etc)
• DPI Australia – including Target 10 era (pre children)
• MAF/Agriculture New Zealand (graduation to moving to Australia)
• Agricultural Science – emphasis in fourth year in dairy – Massey University, NZ
• School ….
• Grew up on my parents dairy farm in Taranaki, New Zealand.
• During my degree ‘reacquainted’ (we knew each other as teenagers) with my husband Andrew, and following graduation we embarked on share-farming (two positions in New Zealand), farm lease in Australia before buying a farm here in Australia. Dairy farming all they way until drought in 1998 forced a re-think of how we ‘utilise’ our land/water assets – resulting in move to beef.

Q1: Share some interesting facts about yourself

• Whole life (to date!) has involved cows from riding the house cow as a toddler, calf club at primary school, milking them, eating them (I’m no vegan!), and revolving my career with them – farming to advisory. In fact – one of my best moments is walking in the beef calving herd at dawn.
• Being outside – trees, damp soil, healthy growing plants, mountains and clear running creeks – cause that means I’m likely on holiday!
• I do not like pumpkin ever! – childhood trauma being forced to eat it
• I have a cast-iron stomach because….

Q2: What do you believe differentiates Reids from other companies?

That Reid’s was founded by farmers shows through!

From how we have approached the recent fuel situation, to the way staff think about what is happening on farm. We care, we have an amazing well skilled team and we go the extra mile through our the whole team.

Q3: What’s the most valuable lesson you’ve learnt in life?

• Do not judge a book by it’s cover

Q4: Your goals or aspirations for the future.

• At the moment – we are at what is next as the last two are at university.
• Staying local to family, being able to visit family and to travel.
• To be challenged, and to feel I am helping make a difference.

Q5: Quote or mantra that inspires you

Stop, reflect and look forward – especially in farming! What have you achieved, where have you come from and where are you heading? Sometimes getting bogged in the day to day can mean losing focus of the journey you are on.