Simple tech: Douglas Clark
Simple but effective technologies at the University of Tasmania’s research farms demonstrate how on-farm modernisation can support growers to make practical day to day decisions.
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Simple but effective technologies at the University of Tasmania’s research farms demonstrate how on-farm modernisation can support growers to make practical day to day decisions.
Congratulations to TasTAFE learner Olivia Baker, winner of the 2025 National Merino Fleece Young Judges Championships, held at the Royal Adelaide Show on 4 September.
Hannah Lewis has a Masters of Agricultural Science, Bachelor of Arts and Commerce and years of experience working in the agricultural industry. However, when she moved to Tasmania to work on a farm, she realised what she needed to take her career to the next level: a Certificate III in Agriculture from TasTAFE.
During National Careers Week, we are catching-up with agriculture graduates of the University of Tasmania to find out where their careers have taken them.
Anyone that’s been diving on the eastern coast of Tasmania is all too aware of the damage that the longspined sea urchin has wreaked on our reef habitat and kelp forests. But did you know that a by-product of harvesting the invasive species for their roe could play a beneficial role on Tasmanian farms?
A feeling of isolation, low rainfall, and the whims of the global economy can make life as a doctor or a plumber seem quite attractive. Yet like other Tasmanians, the more Julian heard it was too hard or impossible the more he wanted to do it. He became a seventh-generation farmer.
Jayden Limbrick’s path into agriculture was anything but typical.
Dr Tory Clarke grew up immersed in a household where science, technology, engineering and maths weren’t abstract concepts, but part of everyday conversation. A naturally curious child who describes herself as “that annoying kid that always asks why”, a future in science might have seemed inevitable.
On the outskirts of Deloraine, in northern Tasmania, you’ll find a man on a mission to turn a much-misunderstood plant into a popular and well-understood food source. Four years ago, Tim Crow founded Hemp Harvests, Tasmania’s only hemp processing facility, and since then he has been working closely with Tasmanian farmers to produce a range of world-class hemp products.
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