Nuffield scholar Lynsey Stratford intends to look at on-farm health and safety as part of her study project. Photo / Supplied
Southland dairy farmer Lynsey Stratford is looking forward to her "world tour of New Zealand" as part of the 2021 Nuffield New Zealand farming scholarship programme.
She was one of five people to be awarded scholarships. In addition to extensive study and travel, each scholar completes a project, which looks
at improving an aspect of primary sector production.
Stratford would focus on farm health and safety; how to make farms safer for people working on them and what could be learned from other industries.
She had also been looking forward to the four months of overseas travel, which was part of the scholarship. However, as Covid-19 border restrictions meant that could not go ahead, organisers were putting together an alternative travel itinerary.
"We will be doing a world tour of New Zealand and going from the top of North Island down to us [Southland] and covering the length and breadth of the country, looking at different industries and how they do things," she said.
