Independent consultancy
Who we are: family-run, independent agronomists.
Dawson Agriculture is an independent agronomy consultancy based in Withcott, Queensland. We work across Southern Queensland and Northern NSW on broadacre cropping programs, soil testing, and farm planning. No product lines. No reseller quotas. Independent advice on both sides of every recommendation.
Our work covers dryland and irrigated cropping across wheat, barley, oats, canola, sorghum, mungbeans and cotton, plus pre-purchase due diligence and property assessments for buyers entering the southern Queensland grain country. We combine paddock-level soil data with crop monitoring and nitrogen-budget analysis to give growers a plan they can act on.
Every recommendation is written against your paddock, your soil test results, and your yield targets. Not against a product catalogue or a lab’s service agreement.
The team
Meet your agronomists.
Jeremy Dawson
Senior Agronomist & Founder, Dawson Agriculture
B. Rur. Sc, Cert. Rur. Sc (Cotton Production), University of New England
Jeremy founded Dawson Agriculture to deliver independent broadacre advice across Southern Queensland and Northern NSW. He specialises in soil testing and fertiliser planning, crop rotation design, planting and harvest decisions, and pasture and oilseed systems, across both dryland and irrigated programs.
Before establishing Dawson Ag, Jeremy served as Senior Agronomist and Director at MCA Agronomy in Goondiwindi. He contributed to the GRDC National Paddock Survey and is currently contracted through GRDC and SPAA on a two-year project scaling variable-rate nutrition adoption across Southern QLD broadacre systems.
- Soil testing and fertiliser planning
- Crop rotation across wheat, barley, oats, canola, sorghum, mungbeans and cotton
- Planting and harvest decisions
- Pasture and oilseed systems
- Variable-rate nutrition and precision agriculture
Keeley Monaghan
Agronomist, Dawson Agriculture
B. Agr. (Agronomy), University of New England
Keeley is an agronomist with Dawson Agriculture working across broadacre cereals on the Darling Downs. She holds a Bachelor of Agriculture majoring in Agronomy from the University of New England and has completed industry soil testing and nutrient interpretation training, along with a mungbean agronomy course in 2025.
Her focus is soil testing, nutrient interpretation, and tailoring fertiliser programs to individual paddock and rotation requirements. She works directly with growers on crop monitoring and soil sampling across the Darling Downs.
Jessica Dawson
Operations and Systems Manager
Jess runs the business and operations side of Dawson Ag alongside Jeremy. Her focus is systems, automation, the website, and the reporting infrastructure behind every client deliverable. Her background is 20+ years in creative strategy, design and visual media, which sets the quality standard we hold for every report that leaves the office. If you’ve received a soil analysis, seasonal brief or paddock performance card from us, Jess designed or built the workflow that produced it. She’s the point of contact for onboarding, systems and how we deliver the work, so Jeremy and Keeley can stay in the paddock.
Peter Lansley
Transport Operator
Peter operates the Kelly Chain and Grizzly Track Renovator dry hire fleet from our Goondiwindi yard. He handles machinery delivery, paddock setup and on-farm operation across the Western Downs and Goondiwindi districts. The heavy gear lives permanently out west because it can’t be trucked down the Toowoomba range, so Peter is the link between the yard and growers booking the chain or the track renovator during seasonal windows.
Rebecca Dawson
Head of Finance
Rebecca leads the group’s financial function, covering bookkeeping, payroll and invoicing through to profitability analysis by service arm and forecasting across the business. Before joining Dawson Ag, she was Treasury and Funding Operations Director at Splitit, Director of Treasury and Capital Markets at Deloitte Australia, and held senior treasury and consulting roles at Wall Street Systems in New York and Virgin Atlantic Airways. Based in Newcastle, NSW, Rebecca works with the business remotely.
How we came to be
A family business built on the land.
Dawson Agriculture is a family business rooted in broadacre grain country. Jeremy and Jess built it on the premise that growers in Southern Queensland and Northern NSW deserved access to independent agronomy advice that wasn’t filtered through product sales or reseller relationships.
The business has grown from a sole-operator agronomy service into a team covering crop agronomy, soil testing, dry hire machinery, and precision agriculture. The family structure means the decisions are long-term ones. We’re not building for a quarterly target. We’re building for growers who want the same agronomist walking the same paddocks year after year.
Service area
Where we work.
Southern Queensland and Northern NSW, with the heaviest concentration in the Darling Downs, Western Downs, and Goondiwindi districts.
Our agronomists are on-farm across Dalby, Toowoomba, Chinchilla, Tara, Goondiwindi, Moree, Millmerran, Oakey, North Star, Cooper Creek, Yetman and surrounding areas.
The dry hire machinery fleet (Kelly Chain and Grizzly Track Renovator) operates out of our Goondiwindi yard, covering the Western Downs and Goondiwindi grain belt. The mobile soil sampling trailer covers the full service area.
Our approach
What we stand for.
Personal service, paddock-specific decisions, straight talk.
Better Data, Better Decisions
We believe good advice starts with accurate data. That’s why we run our own mobile soil testing unit and keep our analysis independent of any lab or reseller. Soil data, NDVI imagery, and crop monitoring feed every agronomic call we make.
Tailored Support
Every farm is different. We don’t run standardised programs or off-the-shelf recommendations. Every fertiliser plan, rotation call, and planting decision is written against your paddock, your soil test results, and your yield targets.
Straightforward Advice
No fluff. No buzzwords. Just honest, proven recommendations backed by years in the paddock. If the answer is simple, we’ll say it simply. If there’s a trade-off to make, we’ll lay it out straight.
What we do
Our services.
Two core service lines, both independent, both grower-direct.
Agronomy
Crop monitoring, N budgets, rotation design, and seasonal decision support for broadacre growers across Southern Queensland and Northern NSW.
Soil Testing
On-farm soil sampling with independent interpretation. Standard, Zonal and EM surveying tiers. GPS-stamped cores, independent lab, actionable fertiliser plan.
Ready to get started? Contact us to discuss your requirements.