A prominent Wongan Hills farmer who is working on converting pig waste into electricity has become the first WA woman to win a prestigious rural award.Sue Middleton, who runs a diverse agricultural and horticultural operation, was named the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Australian Rural Woman of the Year in Canberra last night.
The award was for her work at the Medina Research Station, south of Perth, were she is co-developing a project to show that using piggery waste to generate electricity and reduce carbon emissions is a viable proposition for most piggeries.
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