Chloe Rout’s (IG: @chloe.rout) interest in agriculture and the environment stemmed from helping her parents on the family farm in Gairdner, Western Australia. However, it wasn’t until after she had begun her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia in 2019 that she decided to pursue a career in the industry. Specifically, Chloe saw a career in agriculture as a potential avenue to use the knowledge she’d learned during her environmental and agricultural science degree to help growers with some of the challenges her parents had faced while also better caring for the land.   

In 2021 Chloe undertook a summer research internship with CSIRO, which focused on exploring the effect of temperature and moisture stress on canola germination. This experience led her to complete her Honours in Agricultural Science in 2022, which explored the compensatory ability of hybrid canola, with the aim of aiding growers with the decision of reseeding. More recently, Chloe had the opportunity to share her Honours research as a finalist in the Young Professionals in Agriculture Forum. 

Currently, Chloe is a Graduate Research Agronomist with Living Farm in York WA, where she enjoys working with grower groups and continuing to explore the issue of canola establishment within Western Australian farming systems. 

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