President of the Association from 2007 to 2017, Christopher (Chris) Gunn joined the family farming operation in 1986 after spending some time working in the United States of America. The farm, known as Glen Quoin, is situated on Back Tea Tree Road and produces wool, prime lambs, irrigated and dry land cereal crops, and irrigated crops including poppies, peas, vegetable seed and fodder.
Chris completed his Associate Diploma of Farm Business Management at Glenormiston Agricultural College in 1981, and in 1984 was a MAST international exchange student, a scheme run by the University of Minnesota. In 1990 the farm partnership leased Seaton, a 300-hectare irrigation property in the Coal River Valley, and in 2006 it also leased the Lowlands, a 220-hectare irrigation property. In 2007 they expanded their interests to include leasing the 210-hectare University Farm also situated in the Coal River Valley.