Contributor Profile

Jill Coghlan

Finding ways to work with the environment and improving overall land biodiversity are among the ways Jill Coghlan approaches her livestock business, in her fourth decade on her property Eurimbla.

Jill Coghlan

Albury grazier Jill Coghlan and hard-working friends.

Jill Coghlan grew up in Gunnedah, in northern New South Wales, but has now spent more than forty years close to the Victorian border in what she describes as some of the best stud cattle country in Australia.

Jill and her husband, Ian, bought Eurimbla in 1982, moving to the region for the excellent grazing country and proximity to Albury to ensure a work-life balance and good opportunities for their children.

Nestled in the foothills of the Yambla Range, below Table Top Mountain, Jill and Ian have built a stud and commercial cattle business over the past four decades, breeding red poll and shorthorn cattle and grazing them using sustainable farming models like high-density rotational grazing.

Jill's passion for biodiversity and environmental sustainability is seen particularly in her work introducing dung beetles to Eurimbla, with the goal to provide the best habitat for the most life possible. She prides herself on building a business that utilises biodiversity to reduce inputs and works alongside nature.