Meet Deanna Lush
A Women of Influence : Business & Agriculture

Deanna Lush is Managing Director of AgCommunicators, a consultancy which coordinates communication, marketing and event projects for rural and regional Australia, based in Adelaide.

Deanna and her husband Steen Paech operate a 4500ha grain and sheep property in SA’s Murraylands region. Her career started as a journalist, writing for the former Fairfax Rural Weeklies across Australia, before becoming editor of Stock Journal. She spent three years as media adviser to the South Australian Minister for Water during the millennium drought. In 2017, she completed a Churchill Fellowship on building trust in agriculture.

Other recent achievements include winning the 2019 AgriFutures South Australian Rural Women’s Award and The Advertiser 2019 Community Champion Award as well as being named one of SA’s young business leaders in the InDaily 40 Under 40 Awards. Deanna is a board member of Foodbank SA and committee member of Rural Media SA and Murray Plains Farmers.