Kondinin

Distinguished and Famous people from Kondinin

🌾 Bill Henderson

Bill Henderson helped found the Kondinin Group, which grew from a small pasture-improvement organisation into a nationally recognised source of farmer-led research. The shire records the group’s beginnings with local farmers in 1955. Its underlying idea was practical: farmers could learn more by investigating problems together than by each repeating the same experiment alone. Henderson’s contribution to Western Australian agriculture was recognised by induction into the Royal Agricultural Society’s hall of fame, noted in an ABC profile in 2009. His local association is the research organisation rooted in the district, linking a Wheatbelt farming community with agricultural work across Australia.