{"id":65987,"date":"2017-06-23T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/?p=65987"},"modified":"2017-06-23T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:27:07","slug":"travel-beckons-ambitious-agriculturists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/travel-beckons-ambitious-agriculturists\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel beckons for ambitious agriculturists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='avia-slideshow av-av_slideshow-5edb3aac88bf58f0863f6ab4c6f32112 avia-slideshow-no scaling av_slideshow avia-slide-slider  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-1' data-slideshow-options=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:false,&quot;loop_autoplay&quot;:&quot;once&quot;,&quot;interval&quot;:5,&quot;loop_manual&quot;:&quot;manual-endless&quot;,&quot;autoplay_stopper&quot;:false,&quot;noNavigation&quot;:false,&quot;bg_slider&quot;:false,&quot;keep_padding&quot;:false,&quot;hoverpause&quot;:false,&quot;show_slide_delay&quot;:0}\"  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 75%;'><li  class='avia-slideshow-slide av-av_slideshow-5edb3aac88bf58f0863f6ab4c6f32112__0  av-single-slide slide-1 slide-odd'><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class='av-slideshow-caption av-av_slideshow-5edb3aac88bf58f0863f6ab4c6f32112__0 avia-caption'><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><div class='avia-caption-content '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Rebecca Cracknell and Rob Yardley receive their John Platt Travel Scholarships from Keith Thomas and Reaseheath Principal Meredydd David at the Royal Cheshire Show<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-65979 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-65979\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" title='John Platt travel scholarship' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/John-Platt-travel-scholarship-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Two ambitious young agriculturists are looking forward to global travel thanks to a scholarship run by Reaseheath College and the Cheshire Agricultural Society.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Cracknell and Rob Yardley were each presented with John Platt Travel Scholarships worth \u00a32000 during the Presidents Lunch at the Royal Cheshire Show this week (June 20 \/21).<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca, 28, an Animal Health Officer for the Animal and Plant Health Agency in Crewe, plans to use her scholarship to research whether high levels of biosecurity can successfully control disease in cattle. She is particularly interested in investigating how farms near national parks protect their herds from disease spread by people, wildlife and other species.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca will focus on Australia, where cattle have become TB free but face a growing problem with Johnes disease.\u00a0 As well as visiting farms she hopes to meet colleagues working for Animal Health Australia to discuss the country\u2019s Johnes Disease project.<\/p>\n<p>Raised on a local dairy farm, Rebecca lives in Nantwich, is a former pupil at Brine Lees School and Malbank Sixth Form College and used to work for the Nantwich Veterinary Group as a cattle technician.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cGaining the John Platt scholarship will enable me to visit Australia, which is taking the lead in the fight against Johnes Disease, a horrible cattle disease with no known cure. \u00a0I\u2019m particularly interested in learning how tighter biosecurity influences the outcome, and to use this knowledge to help Cheshire farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob Yardley, 31, a Farm Manager with leading farming company Velcourt, combines his work with studying for a Foundation Degree in Agriculture at Reaseheath.<\/p>\n<p>Rob plans to study alternative options for food producers if glyphosate, a global weed killer commonly used in arable farming, is withdrawn. He is keen to see whether UK growers can farm without glyphosate in a sustainable manner and would like to investigate best practice from contemporaries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Another of Rob\u2019s interests is resistance development in crops, and he aims to study glyphosate resistant cultivars and how best to avoid resistance development.<\/p>\n<p>He intends to use his scholarship to visit North America to research farms with differing glyphosate use, enabling him to analyse cultivation practice and integrated pest management policy. He will also visit Brazil to investigate glyphosate use in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Rob will further his research at Agritechnica, a leading agricultural machinery show in Germany, where he will be supporting visiting Oxford Farming Conference scholars.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI was delighted to be awarded the John Platt Travel Scholarship. Hopefully it will enable me to develop ideas and exchange knowledge with farmers around the world, and that this will ultimately help to develop UK agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank Reaseheath College and the Cheshire Agricultural Society for giving me the opportunity to further my knowledge and interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The John Platt scholarship is in memory of John Platt, a former Chair of Reaseheath Governors and former Chairman, President and Honorary Life Warden of the Cheshire Agricultural Society.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the awards, Cheshire Agricultural Society Director Keith Thomas said that both recipients had been outstanding candidates and had shown the drive, ambition and desire to seek out new information and technology which would benefit the Cheshire farming community.<\/p>\n<p>The John Platt Travel Scholarship is awarded annually and is open to young people who study or work in Cheshire\u2019s landbased industries. Winners share their findings with fellow farmers, Young Farmers Clubs and agricultural students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For further details see <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/john-platt-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.reaseheath.ac.uk\/john-platt-scholarship<\/a><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two ambitious young agriculturists are looking forward to global travel thanks to a scholarship run by Reaseheath College and the Cheshire Agricultural Society. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":65979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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