Fifteen-year-old Harry Strachan comes off a 40,000-acre spread between Pooncarie and Wentworth where three generations of his family have been running sheep and cropping cereals (mostly wheat).

This explains why he was so keen to put his hand up when Coomealla High School ag co-ordinator Michelle Graham announced an intensive, week-long training camp at Tapio Station.

Harry's father Greg was a s...