A SCHOLARSHIP will help provide more opportunities to undertake work placement in rural areas for a veterinary science student.
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Claire Frizell has won a $5000 Sydney Royal Dairy Produce award.
The fourth-year student is studying at Charles Sturt University in Wagga.
“This award will allow me to undertake placements in rural practices and learn how rural vets operate,” Miss Frizell said.
“This is invaluable to me ... I am starting to build a framework of experience that will help me to become a really great vet in two years time,” she said.
Growing up on a commercial beef cattle property – which is also home to a Charolais stud – on the northern tablelands of NSW gave Miss Frizell a good grounding in the rural sector.
“I think that this is the best degree to help me achieve my dreams of not only living in a regional community, but benefiting agriculture (of which I am passionate about) by being a rural vet,” she said.
Miss Frizell said she hoped to work in a mixed practice in a regional area.
And she was certainly interested in working in the dairy industry.
“I absolutely love cattle … I think that the dairy industry is full of innovations and sciences that are always improving,” she said.
“This really excites me and makes me enthusiastic about being part of the future of the industry.”
“I think that Australian agriculture needs to progress to a greater level of efficiency, and the dairy industry plays a huge part in pioneering intensive multi-system farming.”
The scholarship was donated by a well known dairy farmer, John Fairley from Country Valley.
Sydney Royal Dairy Produce committee chairman, Gary Reid, said the scholarship is open to students working across all aspects of the dairy industry and helps foster an evolving industry at the grassroots level.
“It is vitally important that we continue to nurture the development and opportunities available for the next generation of industry leaders – this scholarship assists us to do that,” Mr Reid said.
RAS Foundation executive officer, Kate Ross said Miss Frizell would benefit from the opportunities the scholarship provides.
“Ms Frizell is forward thinking and has just the right attitude to make a real difference to the future of the industry,” Ms Ross said.
