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Scholarship opening doors to ag career
CONGRATULATIONS to James Haslett who is one of the 2025 AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship recipients. James grew up at Murtho in South Australia’ s Riverland on an almond, wine grape, citrus and stone fruit property. He’ s currently attending the University of Adelaide where he’ s studying a Bachelor of Science and majoring in soil science and plant biology.“ I’ ve known for a little while now that I’ ve wanted to go down the agricultural career path,” James said.“ The scholarship seemed to align with a lot of the things I was looking for, the opportunities it presented were very diverse and I’ m getting a lot out of it.” As part of the scholarship James will receive $ 10,000 for the last two years of his studies, attend workshops, complete four weeks of industry placements and benefit from networking opportunities.
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The scholarship seemed to align with a lot of the things I was looking for, the opportunities it presented were very diverse and I ' m getting a lot out of it
- James Haslett, 2025 AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship recipient
James recently returned from the AgriFutures Summit, a week long event in Canberra and said it exceeded his expectations.“ It was really well run and it was an amazing opportunity to see a few different sides of agriculture as well,” he said. James initially moved to Adelaide to study engineering but then decided he was more interested in pursuing a career in agriculture.
One of the 2025 AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship recipients, James Haslett, is seeing the diverse range of career opportunities in agriculture.
“ Working on the farm from a really young age exposes you to a different kind of living and I’ ve just enjoyed that lifestyle and coming away from it for the last two or three years to university has really highlighted that that’ s where I want to end up,” he said. However, James isn’ t in a rush to get back to the family orchard when he finishes his studies and is keen
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to make the most of opportunities that come his way in the next few years.“ Right now it’ s great to come away from it and gain outside knowledge but I think it’ s a wonderful place to be and I can see myself there in the future,” he said. Applications for the 2026 AgriFutures Horizon scholarships will open in mid November.
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