May 14, 2020

Back in 1936 when The University of Western Australia established the independent faculty of Agriculture there was only one university to support the states 25,000 farm businesses. Eighty-four years later and there are now around 5,000 farm businesses, and the State has five universities with four (UWA, Curtin, ECU and Murdoch), offering competing undergraduate agricultural science and business courses. While the two oldest sectors of the WA economy, minerals and agriculture, are likely to pull