Tamara Finger knows she has a role in the community

Ms Finger, Meadowbrook, Dysart, has her own commercial cattle company – TF2 Grazing, and currently has a 400-head breeder herd of Droughtmaster-Charolais cattle. 

She sells at local sales in Clermont and Emerald, and also to feedlots, meatworks and to live export markets. 

But Tamara said one thing her parents instilled in her from a very young age was the importance of being involved in the community outside of the paddock. 

She said she actively seeks other passionate young people and gets them involved as well, with the older generation ready to step out of organisational roles in community organisations. 

“It’s vitally important that young people get involved,” she said.

“Community events are all run by the older generation and they’re only getting older.

“It’s time for everyone to step up and take control - whether it’s the show committee, or groups like AgForce. We have a voice there.”

Tamara herself is a passionate member of the Liberal National Party, and spoke recently at a vegetation management meeting in Rockhampton.

She said not everyone is interested in politics – but said every young person should be involved and ask for their opinion to be heard. 

“Steps have been taken in our past to get to where we are now but it’s a matter of our generation taking control,” Tamara said. 

It was a thought process she was given as a child, and she said in her family every opinion was always equal no matter the age of the person it came from. 

“Our family have always had an open mind, everyone has their own opinion, right through to where we wanted to go to school,” she said. 

Her parents made sure Ms Finger was ready to take on the world by ensuring she had some experience before returning home to the property.

“After I finished school I wasn’t just coming back to the property - I was working elsewhere, engaging with other people not just in paddock,” she said. 

Working in the cattle industry, Ms Finger said the next generation were really starting to come through, and she said she enjoys being part of the AgForce next generation.

“We are the future of these industries, and our voices are starting to come through, our ideas and our plans,” she said.

Ms Finger also has a strong presence at her local agricultural shows, and was involved heavily in junior beef competitions as a child.  

She said all of that helped shape her into a young person who has passion and drive to succeed.