Paul Niven has been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Scholarship, supported by Dairy Australia (DA).
Mr Niven, a Van Diemen's Land (VDL) Company dairy business manager, was one of 21 people from across the nation to be awarded a scholarship.
The award is a 16-week program consisting of both a group and an independent study trip, where scholars can study a topic of their choice.
The scholarship will give Mr Niven the opportunity to visit New Zealand, the United States, Brazil, Ireland, China and Saudi Arabia to complete research into his chosen field of integrated farm management systems.
"I'd like to see how to integrate commodity pricing into our management system and research environmental recording and monitoring, grazing management as well as stock information and management," he said. "Presently we use a combination of programs to bring together stock and farm information to manage the business. There are numerous better systems that embrace smartphone and cloud-based systems, which can add considerable benefit to the business."
DA's industry people and capability manger Shane Hellwege said supporting farmers such as Mr Niven had a positive flow-on effect to the whole dairy industry. "The research Paul undertakes will broaden the understanding of all dairyfarmers," Mr Hellwege said.
DA partnered with Nuffield Australia to offer this opportunity to a dairyfarmer.
The scholarship is open to people in agriculture across Australia. More information can be found at website www.nufflied.com.au.