FUTURE IN FOCUS

EMMA AYLIFFE HAS ONLY HAD HER OWN FARM for four years, yet she has already won the Young Farmer of the Year Award. If you consider the 28-year-old’s short but glittering resume, though, which is bursting with boots-on-the-ground experience, the honour comes as no surprise. “We bought the farm in 2017, which was right at the start of the drought,” she says of the property in Lake Cargelligo, NSW, she owns with her partner, Craig Newham. “If