Already working and competing within the state’s wool industry, Miss Scott was one of 13 recipients who received scholarships totalling almost $200,000 at Agfest.

Miss Scott, who lives at Conara sheep property Myrtlewood and studies agricultural science at the Sandy Bay campus, won the Blundstone Scholarship in Agriculture.

She has recently returned to Tasmania after winning the National Graduate Wool Classer Competition at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and is fitting her work in around studies.

“First year is quite daunting, but the uni has been really accommodating with [competing in Sydney],” Miss Scott said.

“Opportunities like these come up occasionally so I just go for them.”

The remaining scholarship recipients were Emma Roberts, Dylan Bellchambers, Amy Madsen, Febey Pearce, Lucy Cooper, Joshua Bailey, Anna Mackintosh, Janelle Hite, Olivia Cripps, Georgia Griggs, Bree How and Sally Stone-Schack.

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture director Professor Holger Meinke said such agricultural graduates were in demand in Tasmania and around the world.

“Many of our graduates are offered jobs before they even graduate and find themselves in a range of careers including agronomy, agribusiness, food safety and rural finance,” Professor Meinke said.

University of Tasmania Vice-Chancellor Rufus Black said it was exciting to be “stepping into a university that has agriculture so central to what it’s about”.

“This is a university that does world-leading research across a range of agricultural fields, but what really matters is how closely we work with industry and government and that the knowledge that is worked on at the university is translating to solve the problems on farms across the state,” Professor Black said.