This week’s top stories from your Art4Agriculture Young Farming Champions.
In the Field
Youth Voices Leadership Team YFC Mentor Dione Howard is very excited to be accepted into her dream job as a Graduate District Vet with the Riverina Local Land Services.
Tayla Field who is one of our Horticulture Young Farming Champion supported by Aussie Farmers Foundation has accepted a full time position with One Harvest in their Sales & Marketing Team. Well done Tayla we know you love living and working in Brisbane
Shoutout to all our YFC farmers and YFC farmer support networks desperately looking to the sky for those much needed rains to plant winter crops and grow pasture for livestock
From the Field
Youth Voices Leadership team member and Climate Wise Agriculture founder Anika Molesworth is presenting at the Irrigation Australia International Conference
Wool Young Farming Champions Peta Bradley and Caitlin Heppner are visiting schools in the Orange region participating in The Archibull Prize. They are also looking forward to catching up with the Department of Primary Industries team @DPI HQ in Orange to learn more about the DPI school education programs and the Young Farmer Business Project.
In the Media
Young Farming Champions Caitlin Heppner, Lucy Collingridge and Deanna Johnston are featured in the June July edition of the prestigious Beyond the Bale Magazine. You can read their stories online here
Young Farming Champions Anika Molesworth and Danila Marini are the lead-in story on Future Proofing the Farm in Outback Magazine. See background story on our blog here.
Lifetime Highlights
The last couple of weeks have brought some special life events for several of our Young Farming Champions (YFC). We pride ourselves on providing seamless professional development programs that are flexible with the flow of career, lifestyle and family, and it’s our pleasure to support these courageous young agricultural superstars.
A huge shout out to Cotton YFC Martin Murray and partner Rachel Angus on their recent engagement, as well as Cattle and Sheep YFC Hannah Barber’s engagement to her partner Sam Hawker. Congratulations!
Wool YFC Adele Offley married her partner Jesh Smith. We can’t get enough of Adele and Jesh’s stunning wedding photos among their family’s beautiful merino flock.
And a huge congratulations to Cotton YFC Liz Lobsey and partner Troy Kahu Francis who recently welcomed beautiful baby William. It’s wonderful to see the Next Gen Young Farming Champions coming into the world.
Mega congratulations to Martin, Hannah, Adele and Liz.
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