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Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Establish and maintain efficacy and good laboratory practice (GLP) residue trials into new and existing agrochemical products into horticultural and summer/winter broadacre winter crops:• Purpose plant and in-crop trial establishment.• Directed (horticulture) and broadcast (broadacre) hand boom test item applications according to study plans. • Fungicide seed treating inline with commercial practice and for trial test items. • Crop assessments – crop establishment, vigour, growth staging, phytotoxicity, disease scoring according to study plans• Determining insect, disease and weed pressure and crop health for appropriate pesticide and fertiliser maintenance applications according to study plans. • Hand and machine harvest efficacy and GLP trials at varies sampling intervals following strict protocol. • Maintenance/calibration and servicing of research equipment such as ute spray boom, KEW plot harvester, tractor and trial plot seeder/planter.

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Under the supervision of Saliya Gurusinghe (Postdoctoral Research Associate) and Professor Leslie Weston, I assisted weed biology research by:• Taking Ceptometre (light interception) readings of different cover crops.• Visual assessments of weed suppression by different cover crops.• Obtaining biomass cuts and dried them out to compare dry matter yields of different monoculture and multi-species sown cover crops:o Sorted weeds from each plot and obtained dry matter yield data to compare weed suppression between monoculture and multi-species sown cover crops. • Trial site maintenance.

Young, New South Wales, Australia

• Establish and maintain agronomy and breeding winter cropping broadacre field trials for pesticide and seed breeding clients:o Seed treatingo Packing seed and fertilizer and randomizing packets ready for sowing in serpentine order. o Spaying knockdown and IBS pre-emergent herbicides with ute boom.o Assisted with sowing of trial sites on the back of the seeder – tipping seed and fertilizer packets into cone. o Mouse bait spreadingo Urea spreadingo Crop assessments – crop establishment, vigour, growth staging, phytotoxicity, disease scoring and determining insect, disease and weed pressure for appropriate maintenance applications.

Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia

Under the supervision of Sean Bithell (Research Officer Pulse Pathology)• Phytophthora Root Rot (PRR) of Chickpeas projecto Marking and sowing of trials.o Emergence counts.o Disease scoring.o Data entry.o Hand weeding and spot spraying.• National Soil Borne Disease (NSBD) surveyo Travelling throughout Northern NSW surveying Chickpea and Faba bean crops for root diseases.o Biosecurity and field sampling protocol development. o Liaising with agronomists and farmers to plan field trips and gain important information.o Collecting and correctly storing samples from farmer’s paddocks.o Washing and scoring of root samples.o Soil baiting and isolations of root disease pathogens.o Glasshouse trials.o Recording and managing data using Fulcrum application.

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Under the supervision of Richard Meyer (Feed Chemist) and John Piltz (Livestock Research Officer)• Contributed to the Near Infrared Reflectance (NIR) project by:• Grinding pasture samples for further analysis. • Preparing ground forage samples for NIR and nitrate tests. • Coded samples in laboratory database. • Transferring individual data files to large archive file. • Assisting with collection of rumen fluid at the animal house.

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Under the supervision of Simon Flinn (Technical Officer)• Assisted research projects by collecting seed pods of hard-seeded legume pasture species.• Assisted research projects by grinding pasture samples for further analysis. • Assisted research by operating a soil coring machine to collect soil samples and prepare them in the field for later analysis in the lab.

Papua New Guinea

Agricultural industry practicum during final year of university study: • Gained knowledge and experience in management and agronomy of sugarcane and oil palm plantations, both in the field and administration.• Monitored and assisted research and development into changing planting method and equipment of sugarcane with the aim of improving germination.• Assisted sugarcane farm planning and organising the herbicide, fungicide, fertiliser and land preparation for a 12-month period. • Critically and quickly analysed machinery data from a program called Trakpro™ to assess sugarcane harvester and haulage tractor productivity.• Worked as part of a team in collecting data for agronomy trials for both oil palm and sugarcane.• Learnt how to and gained experience in operation of a sugarcane harvester.

Manage sheep enterprise which includes managing feed requirements, general animal husbandry and electronic data recording. Operating farming plants, heavy machinery also with GPS and medium rigid trucks when required.

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Under the supervision of Dr John Broster (Senior Technical Officer)• Assisted research projects by helping set up field trials.• Provided effective data entry owing to my attention to detail. • Tested weed resistance: involving use of herbicides.• Validated effectiveness of the Harrington Seed Destructor and the Seed Terminator through the sorting of ryegrass seeds from wheat chaff.AchievementOwing to effective work habits, data entry and attention to detail, I was invited to complete an herbicide resistant weed survey for Southern and Central NSW.

Bimbi, New South Wales, Australia

Operated farm machinery to ensure a smooth and continuous cereal and oilseed harvest operation.

Greenethorpe, New South Wales, Australia

• Involved safe operations of heavy equipment.• Received and stored cereal and oilseed grain correctly. • Sealed bunkers to ensure proper storage of grain as part of a team.• Unloaded truck into bunkers safely.• Operated heavy equipment in a safe manor.

Maimuru, New South Wales, Australia

• Involved safe operations of heavy equipment.• Received and stored cereal and oilseed grain correctly. • Sealed bunkers to ensure proper storage of grain as part of a team.• Unloaded truck into bunkers safely.• Operated heavy equipment in a safe manor.

Bachelor Of Agricultural Science

Higher School Certificate, Advanced Mathematics, Standared English, Chemistry, Music, Insustrial Technology Wood.

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