Nick is looking towards Ag for the long term
4/12/2017
21 year old Nicholas Hardie has embraced agriculture from many angles already and plans on keeping involved in the industry he loves for a long time to come.
21 year old Nicholas Hardie has embraced agriculture from many angles already and plans on keeping involved in the industry he loves for a long time to come.His enthusiasm for the farming life started in rural WA and continued through his education as an auto electrician at the WA College of Agriculture, Harvey.
The three years he spent at Harvey Ag the school opened up more farming opportunities and Nick’s love of the industry grew.
“After I started at Harvey I really got back into agriculture – the older I have got, the more my passion has grown, and one day I hope to have a farm of my own.”
His studies continued into 2013 at the Muresk Institute in Northam when Nick studied Agricultural Business Management. His dedication to the field saw him serving as a committee member of the youth agricultural movement “Ag Connect” and joining a study tour in Europe in 2016.
While Nick has enthusiastically embraced all the opportunities that have opened up to him a summer program in the Commonwealth Farm Banking team taught him that not all areas of the farming world were suited to his dementor.
“I didn’t have the patience to complete the admin work before I could be hands-on, which is why I enjoy my current role.
“I get the chance to talk to people, travel and be on a farm every day.” Nick explained when comparing the experience at Commbank with his current role at CSBP.
Although Nick was hesitant to dive straight into work after graduating from Mursek last year, when the opportunity to work for Fertiliser Supplier CSBP came up towards the end of his course he went through the application process and was able to start as an area manager after completing his exams.
A change in region saw Nick return to his parent's farm in March as he took on the West Arthur area manager role for CSBP.
Nick is now looking towards the future, although he sees himself staying with CSBP he is planning for a harvest season in Canada to broaden his cropping experience. After that maybe a return to work his parents 1215 hectares for cropping and sheep with his uncle, Brad.
“The unarable acreage is high in this area with the hills and bush land, so here we benefit from sheep,” Nick said.
This article originally appeared in Farm Weekly
