Birchip Cropping Group celebrated its 30th anniversary with a dinner held in the Birchip Leisure Centre earlier this month.
United under the theme, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, guests enjoyed a meal prepared by BCG board member and celebrity chef Stefano de Pieri.
Chief executive Fiona Best hosted the evening, which included the launch of Birchip Cropping Group: The First Thirty Years.
Commissioned by BCG to provide a brief chronological record of the development of the group from BCDS to the BCG of today, it also highlighted some of the innovations and initiatives for which it came to be, and remains, a symbol of agricultural progress.
The subtitle, Choice not chance determines destiny, drawing attention to the unremitting energy of a small group of farmers resolved to take control of their own and their community’s fate. It also recognises BCG for its “achievements, perseverance, productivity and humanity”.
