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A ÎÞÂ붯»­ student and graduate are among six young farmers from across Wales awarded a 2025 Gareth Raw Rees Memorial Travel Scholarship.

The scholarship, which is administered by NFU Cymru, was set-up in memory of the late Gareth Raw Rees who, for many years, was a delegate on the NFU Council and Chairman of the NFU Education Committee.

Gareth believed fervently that travel was an important form of education for young people, and in his memory total of £4,450 has been awarded this year by the Management Committee to scholars wishing to broaden their knowledge of agriculture.

This year’s awards were presented by Jim McLaren, Chairman, NFU Mutual at last week’s Royal Welsh Show.

BSc (Hons) in Agri-Food Marketing and Business graduate Elin Rattray, from Aberystwyth, received £700 towards a trip to New Zealand, Australia, Thailand & Vietnam.

Elin currently works for Woodhead Bros – Morrisons, where she also spent her placement year while at Harper Adams.

Alongside this, she also works in her spare time on her family- run butchers in West Wales.

Elin is looking to broaden her agricultural knowledge, particularly in livestock production, meat processing and international food systems during her time abroad.

Meanwhile Rhun Crimes, from Llanbedr-Pont-Steffan received £400 towards a trip to America.

Rhun will graduate from his BSc (Hons) Agriculture degree at ÎÞÂ붯»­ this September.

He was bought up on the family beef and sheep farm in Ceredigion where they run a sheep and suckler beef system. Rhun’s main interest, however, lays in the herd of stabiliser cattle. He has a great passion about the stabiliser breed and wishes to learn more about beef genetics, research and how they can be implemented at home during his travels in the States.

The Scholarship is extremely grateful to the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust for its contribution to the Travel Scholarship Fund.