PROFILE OF A WEB SITE MANAGER

After a childhood moving around due to her fathers work, Di studied hospitality and tourism at Gatton College. Di worked in the hospitality industry for several years before her marriage. These days Dianne manages a 200 cow dairy farm in partnership with her husband Ray and his parents. The dairy farm is located outside Gympie on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Di is very active off farm in the dairy industry, as Vice Chairman of the Gympie Branch of the Queensland Dairyfarmers Organisation, Treasurer of Dairy Action, the industry's youth group and has been involved in organising numerous industry conferences and events. She is also an active member of both the Queensland Rural Women's Network and Australian Women in Agriculture. In 2001, Di was nominated as Rural Woman of the Year for Queensland.

In between working in the farm business and looking after 2 active children, Di is the Editor of Dairypage, an online magazine for dairyfarmers which is recognised as the most successful dairy website in Australia.

Di's vision for her industry is to assist producers in developing the skills and knowledge to strategically position their businesses in a rapidly changing environment.

She believes that with the dairy industry undergoing its most unstable and uncertain period for 25 years it will be crucial to the survival of their businesses for farmers to have access to the most reliable and up to date information.