The WAARC Web

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The WAARC Web

WA Agricultural Research Collaboration

7 episodes

2 months ago

Guest: Saira Azmat Host: Montana Baddeley In this episode of Cultivating the Future, Montana Baddeley chats with Saira Azmat, who grew up in Pakistan and completed her early education and Masters there before moving to Western Australia for her PhD at The University of Western Australia. Saira’s research is focused entirely on agriculture, addressing some of Western Australia’s most pressing challenges, including saline soils and phosphorus-deficient landscapes that limit cereal crop producti...

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Cultivating the Future: Saira Azmat

2 months ago

10 minutes

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Cultivating the Future: Ruby Wiese

Guest: Ruby Wiese Host: Hitashi Aggarwal In this episode of Cultivating the Future, Hitashi Aggarwal chats with Ruby Wiese, who grew up on a cropping and livestock farm near Narrogin, WA, and is now completing her PhD in agricultural science at The University of Western Australia. Ruby’s research is part of a project developing a new method for harvesting subterranean clover, a key pasture legume that buries its seeds just below the soil surface. With current vacuum harvesting met...

3 months ago

12 minutes

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Cultivating the Future: Huyen Pham

Guest: Huyen Pham Host: Georgia Welsh In this episode of Cultivating the Future, Georgia Welsh sits down with Huyen Pham, a passionate agricultural researcher originally from Vietnam. Now in the third year of her PhD at The University of Western Australia, Huyen shares her journey from studying Agroecology in Japan to investigating how wheat roots interact with soil. Her research focuses on rhizosheath (the soil that clings to wheat roots) and how this trait can improve access to ...

4 months ago

11 minutes

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Cultivating the Future: Montana Baddeley

Guest: Montana Baddeley Host: Roberto Lujan Rocha In this episode of Cultivating the Future, Roberto Lujan Rocha speaks with Montana Baddeley, a PhD student at The University of Western Australia. Originally from Geraldton, Montana’s passion for livestock genetics began on her family’s horse stud and evolved into a multidisciplinary research career. Her PhD, supported by the WA Agricultural Research Collaboration (WAARC), explores the interplay between genetics, environment and ma...

4 months ago

11 minutes

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Cultivating the Future: Hitashi Aggarwal

Guest: Hitashi Aggarwal Host: Ruby Wiese In this episode of Cultivating the Future, Ruby Wiese speaks with Hitashi Aggarwal, a PhD student at Murdoch University with roots in the agricultural heartland of Punjab, India. Hitashi shares how growing up in a farming community inspired her passion for agricultural science and plant genetics. Now, her research focuses on using CRISPR/Cas gene editing to address one of wheat breeding's major challenges: its tendency to self-fertilis...

5 months ago

13 minutes

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Cultivating the Future: Georgia Welsh

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...

5 months ago

10 minutes

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Cultivating the Future: Roberto Lujan Rocha

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 ag...

6 months ago

15 minutes