We are an exclusively family operation, the partnership is run by Craig and Michele Gee, and their son Adam with his partner Kayla.
They are greatly assisted by Craig's parents, Col (who passed in 2024) and Carol, still going strong well into her 80’s.
Age is no issue. It was not uncommon to see Col towing the plough and see Carol still tending to young stock. They have been farmers through their whole life, both on their parents farms from childhood and then on their own when they purchased a piece of Caroline’s parents farm in the early nineteen-nineties. Their lifetime of experience and lessons learned are invaluable.
Operating just minutes from Beaudesert township in the Scenic Rim Shire of South East Queensland. Post weaner cattle are raised on the flats adjoining the Logan river, the land we graze there contains river loam with some melon hole country and small amounts of blacksoil. The property is littered with small camps of trees, namely the Grey Gum, from which we take the inspiration for our name. It is part of the farm Craig’s grandfather and Adam’s great grandfather first purchased after settling in the area in the years after his return from World War 1.
We maintain native grasses, cultivate some seasonal pastures and use some land to grow our own hay and silage.
The majority of the breeders do their work on coastal forest country that allows us to apply the sort of pressure required to find the best. They contend with hills and gullies, heavy scrub, lantana, ticks and flies and small occurences of wild dogs. The country contains some spear grass but is primarily rhodes, panic and kikuyu. As well as pockets of the legume, siratro.
Craig and Michele have been married over 30 years and Adam is the second of three children from this union. Adam and Kayla met during Adam's time working in Sydney. Originally from the NSW South Coast, they all reside in SEQ now and collectively complete the work required to operate the stud and commercial cattle operation.