Nil withholding, for when she needs it.

“We heard from a bunch of people across the week who all had different roles, and a lot of them talked about how they spend time in their job out on farm getting their hands dirty, as well as time in the office,” she said.

“And this mix of different tasks within the one role is something that really appeals to me.”

Lincoln University domestic liaison team leader Lucy Grubb joined the students on the four-

“Coming into the programme, a lot of the students associated roles in the agribusiness sector with on-farm positions, but they didn’t necessarily have a good grasp of all the other positions that are linked into the sector,” she said.

“So it was a bit of an eye-opener for some of them to learn about all the potential career paths connected to the sector in areas like marketing, research and development and logistics.”