Tim Watts

Tim Watts serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, while concurrently managing a 1,497-hectare mixed farming operation in Pingelly, WA. His leadership extends to Chair of the Western Australian Livestock Research Council (2017–present) and membership on the Sheep Industry Leadership Council (2015–present) and Sheep's Back Advisory Board (2010–present).

• Master of Veterinary Studies, University of Melbourne (1987)
• Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Murdoch University (1984)
• Bachelor of Science (Veterinary Biology), Murdoch University (1982)

His research integrates veterinary science with practical agriculture, specializing in oestrogenic pasture impacts on livestock fertility, benchmarking high-performance sheep/cropping systems, and implementing no-till permanent cropping rotations. As a host farmer for national programs like Life-Time Wool and Pastures from Space, he bridges academic research with commercial farming through intensive grazing techniques and data-driven enterprise management.

He currently serves as Investigator 02 on the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development project "Determining the impacts of grazing oestrogenic clovers on cattle fertility" (2022–2025), collaborating with researchers including Vercoe and Blache to assess clover effects on cattle reproduction.

Watts contributes to undergraduate education through AGRI2201 in the Agriculture Science major, leveraging his dual expertise as both academic and practicing farmer to deliver industry-relevant instruction grounded in real-world mixed-farming systems.