Archive for 2018
Is Automated Farming A Threat to Job Security?
By Dr Ray Johnson, Managing Director Agricultural Appointments. As I have previously written, there is a digital revolution underway in Australian agriculture, now with the timely confluence of record production levels marking agriculture as one of the key “industries of the future”. But it is the digital revolution that is changing the traditional harsh image…
Read MoreAre More Women Being Employed In The Agricultural Sector?
By Dr Ray Johnson, Managing Director Agricultural Appointments At the Universities and agricultural colleges offering rural and veterinary courses in Australia, there has been a dramatic change in the gender balance of students over the last 25-30 years. In many instances women now make up the majority of such training courses. As I have previously…
Read MoreSuccessful City Financier Finds a Passion for Agriculture
Patrick Lash was a successful city financier until a short course in agriculture ignited a dream. Here’s how Agricultural Appointments helped turn that dream into a totally new career path. “I grew up in Sydney on the lower north shore at Cammeray, which is pretty green and about as suburban as it gets,” Patrick Lash,…
Read MoreFrom India to Australia…For Polymer Technology Research
The chance to work with emerging polymer technology in pesticide formulation was the lure that enticed Dr. Harsh Vardhan to make a major career jump and move from Gurgaon, India to Melbourne. Here’s why. 23 years ago, scientist Harsh Vardhan left the University of Delhi with a Master of Science in Agrochemicals and Pest Management…
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