AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National Winner is Carol Mudford

Carol proved hard to match coming into the 2025 award as the NSW state winner as she is a shearer registered nurse and mental health advocate Carol Mudford has been named the 2025 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award Winner for her leadership in creating safe spaces and practical support across shearing sheds nationwide. Carol’s work was […]

Les Young thoroughbred horse industry scholarship awarded

This thoroughbred industry scholarship award for 2025 has set the recipient overseas and on track for future local industry leadership Miriam Drinnan’s vision for a big, bold career in the Thoroughbred industry has just been turbo-charged by winning the Les Young Scholarship, an award supported by the AgriFutures Thoroughbred Horses Program. The driven twenty-year-old from […]

Horizon Scholarship celebrates 15 years of investing in future agriculture leaders

As local agriculture navigates a number of opportunities and challenges such as workforce, climate change and rapid digital transformation, AgriFutures Australia’s Horizon Scholarship Program is investing in the next generation of leaders with the skills and passion to tackle such issues head on. Announcing today its 2025 cohort of 21 ambitious students across Australia, the […]