Jemma Sadler

Nuffield Australia 2012 scholarship winner

Jemma Sadler, from Wongan Hills in Western Australia, receives the 2012 Nuffield Scholarship sponsored by the Grains Research and Development
Corporation.

Jemma would like to study profitable cropping with sustainable weed management, an issue she sees as an increasing problem in the WA wheatbelt.

She works on her family's mixed livestock and cropping property in partnership with her brother and father. They have a 4500 hectare cropping program consisting of wheat, canola, barley and lupins as well as 3000 breeding ewes.

Jemma hopes to gain an insight into how farmers and farming groups around the world are dealing with increasing opposition to chemical use and genetically modified (GM) technology saying, "I would like to see how other countries are handling the integration of GM growers with non‐GM growers, and how these different farming practices can co‐exist amicably."

She adds, "although I believe Australia is a world leader in research into integrated weed management, I would like to investigate how other countries are profitably controlling their weeds, without the use of herbicides."

Jemma is planning to visit Europe, the USA, Canada and South America.

PO Box 108,
WONGAN HILLS, WA 6603
0408 721 029
jemmasadler@bigpond.com