Selection criteria
The best paper that is suitable for presentation to the Agricultural Section of the current ASSCT Conference based on the work of a student from any Australian Tertiary Institution, any year or any unit of study. The student must be named as a senior author of the paper.
Selection made by
A Committee convened by the Agricultural Section.
Timing
Selection has to be done by the second day of Conference in order to allow time for engraving the presentation plaque and for advising the successful candidate.
Prize
An engraved plaque & $400.00, or as determined by the ASSCT Executive.
For 2024, the Mac Hogarth Agricultre Award was sponsored by Canegrowers Mossman.
2024 bursary recipient: Ethan Waters for the paper Detection of ratoon stunting disease with freely available satellite-based multispectral imaging and machine learning. Authors: E Waters, C Chen, LP Di Bella, R Nielson, R Harragon, MR Azghadi
2023 bursary recipient: Hang Xu for the paper Characterising the potential association of invertebrates with Yellow Canopy Syndrome of sugarcane. Authors: H Xu, J Humpal, B Wilson, G Ash, KS Powell
Not awarded in 2022
2021 bursary recipient: Chelsy Janke