The Year 11 student from Gunnedah High School has high hopes of becoming an agricultural consultant and is well on her way after bagging an award in a agricultural careers competition on Tuesday.

Art 4 Agriculture ran the infographics competition alongside the Archibull Prize in conjunction with National Agriculture Day and was held in Sydney Olympic Park. Haylee took home the prize for the senior division of the secondary school section.

The teenager said she was “shocked” to win.

“I did put a lot of work into it [but] it was just something fun I wanted to do,” she said.

Art 4 Agriculture’s national program director, Lynne Strong, 

“We were very impressed with her,” she said.

“I'm looking forward to following her career.”

Haylee already has her career path mapped out, with plans to attend Tocal College in Cessnock and gain agricultural certificates.

“With that I can use a pathway from Tocal to the University of New England and do a Bachelor of Agriculture,” she said.

“To be an agricultural consultant, you have to, at a bare minimum, do a Bachelor of Agriculture or you can do a Bachelor of Rural Science.”

The student said she has always wanted to pursue agriculture and has been doing the subject at school since Year 9.

“There’s so much diversity to [agriculture]. You can start in one area and end up in another,” she said.

“I like it all – that’s why I want to go into consultancy, because it focuses on all of it.”