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Lifetime’s work recognised with national award

Posted by Jessica in Grass Roots on 22 Jun 2010 at 09:59 am

Described as a genuine all-rounder, agricultural scientist and educator, Emeritus Professor Ted Wolfe of Wagga Wagga has received a national award for his ‘life-time commitment to Australian agriculture and pasture science’. Prof Wolfe is originally a Cooma boy, brother of local veterinary surgeon Peter and also Liz Litchfield. One of two Australian Medals of Agricultural Science for 2010 was awarded to Professor Wolfe by the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (AIAST). The other recipient was Mr Jim McColl of South Australia, a long-time advocate of farm business management and consultancy services. The Institute commended Professor Wolfe for his ‘great and remarkably diverse contributions in agronomy, animal health, pasture ecology, plant breeding, pasture improvement, and pasture and crop interactions’. Starting his career in the 1960s as a teaching fellow with the University of Sydney, Professor Wolfe went on to be a research agronomist and later a Director of Research at the then NSW Department of Agriculture in Wagga Wagga. In 1983 he took up the position of Regional Director of Research for the New England, Hunter and Metropolitan Region, based at Tamworth in northern NSW. In 1990 Professor Wolfe returned to Wagga Wagga as Professor of Agricul...
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