Professor Timothy Reeves is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to sustainable agriculture research and production.
Professor Reeves, from Newtown, was involved in bringing canola to Victoria in the 1960s.
He was awarded the 2019 Farrer Memorial Medal, acknowledging his contribution to sustainable agriculture through work in agricultural research, development and extension.
Professor Reeves was Acting Chief Scientist for the Victorian Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the chair of the Foundation for Arable Research Australia.
He is a passionate advocate of sustainable agriculture and has lived and worked around the world and is now teaching aspiring agricultural scientists at Melbourne University’s Dookie campus in the Goulburn Valley.
