THLHS students guest speakers at recent Grenfell Rotary meeting.

September 25 2014 - 10:00am
(L to R) Jill Hodgson, Grace Kelly, Annie Matthews and Roma Sinclair.
(L to R) Jill Hodgson, Grace Kelly, Annie Matthews and Roma Sinclair.

T.H.L.H. School students Annie Matthews and Grace Kelly were recent Guest Speakers at the Grenfell Rotary Club. Last April, Grace and Annie had taken part in a RYCAG (Rotary Youth Crop, Agronomy, Grain and Seed) School at Narromine to learn about the Cotton Industry. Eighteen students from around the Central West had participated in a very comprehensive overview of this comparatively new industry, sponsored and run by members of the Rotary Club of Narromine. Students were billeted at Narromine Racecourse and hit the ground running; on Day 1 they learned about and examined machinery used, and about the different methods of irrigation employed. In Narromine, the water supply is drawn from the Macquarie River. A tour of a cotton farm followed, where the young people learned how the crop is grown and harvested, what a cotton bale looks like and the likely price received by the farmer. On Day 2 there were discussions about GM, and particularly its effect on other crops. A lot of the labouring work is done by Backpackers.

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