Dick owns and operates a broad acre irrigation farm at Hanwood producing rice, winter cereals and prime lambs.
Dick was elected to the initial irrigators Board in 1989; in July 1997 he chaired the former Murrumbidgee Irrigation State Owned Corporation, and has continued on as Chairman since the irrigator owned Company was formed in 1999.
Dick is a member of the Murrumbidgee Customer Services Committee of State Water, who operate the Murrumbidgee river system, and is their representative on the Tumut River Advisory Committee which was established by the MDBC.
Dick is also an executive member of NSW Irrigators’ Council and a member of The Living Murray Water Recovery Murrumbidgee Regional Study Steering Committee, which was established by MDBC to investigate water savings.