Recently, the Landbased Education and Training Committee (LE-TEC) selected the winners of its Technicians for 2021.

Overall winner was Laura Bassnett, who works as a Trainee Technician at Case dealership, Ernest Doe, Fyfield branch.

Chris Biddle recently caught up during a climbing and hiking holiday in Wales for the latest episode of his Inside Agri-Turf podcast. Laura chatted enthusiastically about her love of the outdoors and how she had been attracted to a job in the agricultural machinery industry after spending time in Australia and New Zealand.

After enrolling on a two-year agricultural machinery course at Reaseheath College, she was taken on by Ernest Doe and talks about many of the enjoyable aspects of her job - as well as some areas that she still finds challenging.

Laura says that her job is possibly not for everyone, but for anyone who loves the outdoors, wants variety and is always up for a challenge, then landbased engineering is an ideal career.

One of the other finalists of Technician for 2021, Lauren Savage, who is an agricultural engineering apprentice working at AGCO dealer Chandlers Farm Equipment, will also feature in a special episode of Inside Agri-Turf to be published on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day 2021

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