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Pat Harden … heading off to a new job in machinery sales in Bundaberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 5, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Same felt hat … different shirt.\u00a0 With these words, a stalwart of Kingaroy’s peanut industry signed off from the Peanut Company of Australia at Easter after a 24-year stint servicing peanut growers from northern NSW to the Atherton Tableland.<\/p>\n

Senior agronomist Pat Harden began work at PCA in October 1992 at the age of 24.<\/p>\n

PCA – or\u00a0 the Peanut Marketing Board as it was known then – was looking for a seed agronomist to work on its newly introduced peanut pure seed program.<\/p>\n

Pat, who had a Bachelor of Applied Science from Gatton College, was working at Dekalb Seed Company in Toowoomba at the time.<\/p>\n

He applied, and got the job in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

Pat – and his hat – quickly became a familiar sight for South and Central Burnett peanut growers in his role with the seed program, and working as an extension agronomist.<\/p>\n

His boss was Peter Hatfield, another name familiar to local growers, who later went on to start his own company, “Arachis Australia”.<\/p>\n

“It was called the ‘Industry Development Department’ and there were five agronomists!” Pat recalled.<\/p>\n

In 1998, Pat broke “Rule No 1 in Hatfield’s Handbook”, ie “Thou shalt not go out with a peanut farmer’s daughter” when he married Kathy.<\/p>\n

After a short stint in the Northern Territory, Pat returned to Kingaroy, this time working as an agronomist for southern Queensland and the Northern Territory, spending about eight weeks a year in Katherine.<\/p>\n

His southern role took him out to growers from Bourke, in NSW, to Emerald in Central Queensland.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Pat earned the title of “Farming Services Manager” and was now working with more and more growers in the Bundaberg region.<\/p>\n

Five years later, Pat shifted to Bundaberg full-time to service growers in that area, Mackay and, later, North Queensland.<\/p>\n

“In 2010-11, I would fly to North Queensland one week a month to work with growers on the Atherton Tableland,” Pat said.<\/p>\n

In 2012, he took on responsibility for seed production as well as peanut agronomy and was appointed Senior Agronomist.<\/p>\n

There would not be a peanut grower from NSW to Tolga who wouldn’t know Pat Harden, and he hopes this will work well for him in his new job.<\/p>\n

He will start at Vanderfield John Deere in Bundaberg, working in ag sales.<\/p>\n

The move is “basically to stop travelling”.<\/p>\n

Pat and Kathy’s daughter has turned five and has just started school in Bundaberg, and Pat wants to spend more time at home.<\/p>\n

“I am looking forward to continuing to work with growers,” he said. “Same felt hat, different shirt.”<\/p>\n

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About the time Pat started at PCA (then PMB) … Members of the Industry Development Department, from left, Peter Hatfield, Pat Harden, secretary Cindy Rogers, Mark Reinbott and Peter Foxwell, who started work the same day as Pat (Photo: PCA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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