BSc Agriculture (Hons); PhD
Fertiliser Services Manager, CSBP Ltd.
I spent the final year of my degree in 1985 trying to collect milk from lactating sows so I could measure its fat content for my honours thesis, which was no easy task!
I had a significant component of agronomy in my undergraduate degree and I was employed by the WA Department of Agriculture, as it was then known, to investigate ways to manage frost damage in cereal crops. This was a three-year project funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation.
When the frost project was completed I went back to UWA to undertake my PhD into the effects of lupins on soil fertility, particularly soil acidity. I was one of Professor Alan Robson's last students, not because I was such a difficult one, but he was going onto bigger and better things within The University.
I enjoyed my seven years at UWA and would encourage any person interested in agriculture to consider undertaking study at UWA. The undergraduate course was remarkably diverse and enabled students to specialise in a wide range of areas and end up in obscure careers.
