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Today Palgrove is one of Australia’s largest and best known seedstock and commercial cattle operations, but once it was a small business owned by a young couple with ‘lots of ideas and quite a bit of debt’. Yesterday at the Young Beef Producers Forum in Roma, Prue and David Bondfield shared their story with a room full of young beef producers and some of the lessons they have learned along the way.

Fifty-four years buying cattle across far-flung regions of eastern and central Australia has provided a rich tapestry of experiences and friendships for popular Victorian cattle buyer David Ronalds.