Guest: Georgia Welsh
Host: Huyen Pham

In this episode of Cultivating the Future, Huyen Pham chats with Georgia Welsh, a 26-year-old animal production scientist and PhD candidate at Murdoch University. 

Georgia shares her journey from Perth city life into agriculture, driven by a passion for livestock research. Her current work focuses on improving lamb survival by using forage crops like saltbush as both shelter and nutrition during lambing. 

With real-world impact in mind, Georgia’s research aims to provide practical, welfare-focused guidelines for producers across Australia.

She is supported by WAARC, Meat & Livestock Australia, The University of Western Australia, and CSIRO.

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Guest: Roberto Lujan Rocha
Host: Montana Baddeley

Welcome to Cultivating the Future, a podcast where participants in the WA Agricultural Research Collaboration’s Postgraduate Research Scholarship Program take turns behind the mic, sharing their journeys, insights and the impact their work will have on farmers across the State.

On this episode, Roberto Lujan Rocha chats to Montana Baddeley about his journey from playing professional soccer 3600 metres above sea level in Bolivia, to studying agricultural science at The University of Western Australia.

Roberto's PhD is exploring how satellite imagery and farm data (like crop yield maps and soil layers) can be used to proactively predict weed patches and inform sustainable, integrated weed management strategies for Australian grain farms.

He is supported by WAARC, CSIRO, the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, and the Centre for Water and Spatial Science.

• Find Roberto's publications here
• Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI)
• Centre for Water and Spatial Science
• Squadrone (a STEM drone education startup)
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