Brodie Lange and Sam Ropitini

WAMMCO Appointments

17th January 2018

WAMMCO Katanning manager Tony Bessell has announced the appointment of two new managers for the cooperative’s export lamb and mutton processing plant for the start of the 2018 season.

Former Katanning student Hamuera (Sam) Ropitini completed an 18 month training course to become the plant’s new slaughter floor superintendent late in 2017. He takes over responsibility for around 80 slaughter floor employees at Katanning, from Cecil Kells, who has returned to New Zealand after 18 years in the superintendent’s role.

Brodie Lange is WAMMCO’s new Katanning Lairage Manager, having joined the cooperative in October 2017. A former Harvey Agricultural College graduate, Brodie has worked on a SW dairy farm, and as manager for a fast food chain before moving to Katanning.

Both Sam and Brodie are due to marry local partners in 2018.

MINGENEW LAMBS TAKE WAMMCO AWARD

19th March 2021

WAMMCO’s Producers of the month for February, Peter and Kate Mills and their family, of the steadily growing Ikewa Grazing farm business at Mingenew/Arrino, are working confirmation ...

LAMB FOCUS SHIFTS TO WINTON PARK

19th February 2021

Dedicated sheepman Michael Reynalds of Winton Park Grazing, Tambellup has rolled his first WAMMCO “double sixer” as Lamb Producer of the Month title winner for January 2021. A delivery ...

BUNKIN LAMBS TAKE DECEMBER TITLE

07th January 2021

Grazing their ewes and lambs on crops of Spartacus barley with a complement of pellets and salt licks, and capitalizing on the higher profitability of their SAMMs, has proved to ...

ANOTHER WIN FOR LUCCHESI FAMILY

11th December 2020

Timely rains on their home property at Kulin early this season started a profitable chain reaction for the prime lamb enterprise of the Lucchesi family. An abundance of green pasture ...

JAMES FAMILY LAMBS PUT KARLGARIN ON MAP

16th November 2020

The pioneering James family of Karlgarin has joined the ranks of WAMMCO achievers with Murray and Leonie James and their sons Sam and Alex and partners, of ‘Jesmond-Dene’ ...