Hi, I’m Hugo and I come from Kalamunda, a town in the Perth Hills, situated 30 minutes from Perth. Although not from a farming background, I had the privilege of living in a semi-rural setting, developing a love for open spaces.
Attending a local private boy’s school, many of my best friends were boarders and I used to love hearing about their farms and country life.
I soon realised that agriculture would be something right up my alley, lined up a few days on my two friends’ cropping and sheep farms in Kukerin and Koorda. I then followed this with work experience with a family friend who is an agronomist, based in York and loved every minute of it. So, I decided to enrol in a Bachelor of Agribusiness at Curtin University.
I am most passionate about cropping and would like to work in extension agronomy when I finish my degree, planning and managing field trials, speaking at field walks and publishing reports about the findings, to benefit farmers and agriculture as a whole.
I am extremely excited to be awarded a Horizon Scholarship, because I believe it will allow me to network with like-minded people, but also industry leaders, to grow my skill set and build my knowledge, and to take advantage of some opportunities I wouldn’t have otherwise have such as getting to work with GRDC, a corporation whose work I value greatly.