Boorowa's James Alexander is set to head on a whirlwind world tour next year, all in the name of regenerative agriculture.
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Mr Alexander has been named as one of seven 2020 Nuffield Scholars from NSW who will receive a $30,000 bursary to travel overseas next year and conduct research into their chosen study topics.
Mr Alexander, who works on Charlie Arnott's property, says his research looks into the ways regenerative agriculture can solve problems such as reduced ground cover and soil health.
"My focus is to study how to best incorporate some of the key principles of regenerative agriculture into my mixed farming business," he said.
"Little key things you can implement with as little disturbance to your current farming business. You can break it down into small steps so it's more achievable."
Mr Alexander said the program is broken into two parts - a global focus program and personal study.
"The first part is a six-week overseas study tour that's organised by Nuffield Australia, we do six countries in six weeks... and have a focus country that we do mini study on at the end of that six weeks," he said.
"I'll be off to New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, Israel, the Netherlands and the US... That will take up half of that $30,000 bursary. After that I've got a period of eight weeks of personal study which I have to organise myself, which is specific to my topic.
"I'd keen at doing a bit more in the US and probably the UK also, there seems to be a bit going on there in that regenerative agriculture space."
Mr Alexander says his research in the regenerative agriculture field came as a result of wanting to looks outside conventional farming practices.
"I used to work as an agronomist, I was very much part of the conventional farming world," he said.
"I was just starting to look for other ways or possibly better ways we could manage our farming landscapes and grow some good food."
