BEVAN YOUNG

Non-Executive Director since 24 November 2023

Bevan Young, from Noosa Lime Co, is a lime grower in the Pomona district on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Bevan’s role covers all growing, harvesting and marketing of the limes.

Bevan started is citrus career ‘bug checking’ with a local Gayndah business in 1994 which gave him a good platform for citrus production monitoring approximately 37 farms in the area. From this platform he purchased a citrus orchard in 1999, predominantly with mandarin varieties, in the Gayndah area and continued to expand for the following 24 years. Bevan had a large packhouse with state-of-the-art Compac equipment which he used for packing his own fruit along with five other local growers.

He was Chairman of the Gayndah and District Citrus Growers Association for 12 years up until the sale of his Gayndah properties.

Bevan has a passion for marketing and helping growers increase their profit margins. He firmly believes that networking across industries is paramount to the survival of rural businesses and is keen to be involved across all sectors of agriculture.