Mary O’Brien (T: @spraydriftgirl) is a passionate advocate for agriculture. Being raised on the land, she understands the diverse challenges faced by the rural sector.  Since 1992, Mary has lived in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, where she has gained an in-depth knowledge of the local farming systems and built extensive networks throughout the Australian agricultural sector.

After spending her whole life working in rural and remote Australia, Mary knows country blokes. She’s worked with them, for them, and beside them and mostly importantly she knows how to talk to them. This unique perspective inspired the launch of Are you bogged mate? which is aimed help connect country men with support services and breakdown the stigma associated with seeking help.

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Peter Vallance (TT: @malleeboy3490) is a farmer living on a 24,000 acre property in the north west corner of Victoria in the Mallee region.

As of today Peter has 380,000 TikTok followers, and 5.6Million likes.

Peter is one of the most humble guests, after completing a traineeship at Highschool he returned to the farm to start taking over.

Peter has become an advocate for Agriculture now appearing on A current Affair and being tabled an International Social Media Star.

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The daughter of UK & Irish immigrants Jackie Jarvis (T: @Jarvis_Jackie) (nee Mullins) grew up in in the northern Perth suburb of Wanneroo, where she spent her teenage years working on the vegetable growing “market gardens” during her school holidays. After declaring to her family, that she would “never work in agriculture again” Jackie started her career in the finance industry where she met her husband Matt while they were both working in the South West. The couple relocated back to Perth, both got jobs on St George’s Tce, bought a house in the city with no plans to ever leave. Matt called her in 1996 saying he had been offered a work transfer to Margaret River and Jackie agreed she would go for 2 years. By 1998 the couple had sold their Perth home, had their first baby, planted a vineyard; and Jackie declared she would never return to Perth.

Jackie returned to off-farm work when Ashlee started school and built new career in as an expert in Workforce Development for the Agricultural sector. Her work in the area of attracting resettled refugees to work in agriculture saw her named as the 2014 WA Rural Woman of the Year and National Runner-Up. More recently Jackie has served as a Principal Policy Adviser to the on. Alannah MacTiernan MLC Minister for Regional Development; Agriculture & Food. In November 2017 she took up the role of CEO of the Rural, Regional, Remote Woman’s Network of WA Inc. A role that allowed her to work from home on vineyard, albeit with regular long-distance trips.

And even though she’s not full time in the farm business anymore, Jackie can often be found working in the Jarvis Estate Cellar Door on weekends. She has a love of audio books, generally listened to while driving up and down the Forrest Highway.

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Michaela Hendry (T: @MichaelaHendry, I: @michaela_hendry) is a 22 year old young woman on an agricultural mission. She grew up in the small Western Australian farming area of Pingaring, roughly 350kms from Perth. At the age of 12, her parents sold the family farm and moved to the seaside town of Albany where Michaela never really felt settled. She ended up completing her schooling years at a Western Australian College of Agriculture campus before going on to recently complete her Bachelor of Agribusiness at Curtin University. 

Michaela's ethos of "just have a crack" has brought her a diverse mix of opportunities and experiences in the ag sector including being a committee member for AgConnect, which lead to a role on the WAFarmers Grains Council, she was an Administrator in the Department of Premier and Cabinet for the Minister for Agriculture and Food, followed by a Project Officer for the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. But the call of the bush was strong, and these days you'll find Michaela working on her uncle's farm on the Wheatbelt, earning her stripes before pursuing a career as an agronomist. 

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Bennet Forrester, born and raised in the Kimberly region of Western Australia and Demi Robinson from Cobar in Far Western NSW now living in Perth WA together with their team Mark & Bec Sadler and Harry Patel are leading the market with their company, Catel (I: @c.a.t.el). This Agri FinTech start-up are creating an online agriculture investment market connecting responsible farmers with responsible investors. The team at Catel are striving to make a shift in paradigm and expand the market for rural equity finance and investing.

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Lauren Bell’s (Fb: Waste Not Food Recycling) journey from Sydney-sider, to station hand to fly-farmer, helps demonstrate that inexperience is no barrier   to a rural experience. Also, that there is a diverse range of opportunities for women to contribute to the future of farming in Australia. After completing university in Sydney, a short-term job contract in Darwin launched Lauren into a life based in northern   Australia, and eventually a career in beef cattle agriculture on remote stations spanning across northern QLD, NT and WA.

Working in agriculture Lauren developed a passion to partake in the challenge of sustainably feeding a growing global   population. It was to this sentiment that Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farming appealed. BSF farming replicates natures own nutrient recycling process, using insects to upcycle organic waste into sustainable feed and fertilizer products. Now based in Broome, Lauren is using BSF farming to develop a system of organic waste management that builds the economies of regional and remote communities in Northern Australia, not   landfills.

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Hugh Dawson (T: @HPJDAWSON, I: @hpjdawson) grew up on a relatively small hobby farm in the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. He had nothing to do with the live export chain until he decided to partake in a gap year on a cattle station in the Northern Territory after finishing school. Currently he is onto his 5th year working as the Head Stockman on Beetaloo Station. He believes it is crucial for us as young industry representatives to share the story of the live export chain to ensure we can continue to improve animal welfare standards globally.

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Sally Murfet (I: @inspireagaus) is a farmers' daughter with red dirt running through her veins. With more than 20 years' experience working on-farm and with agribusiness companies, she has an innate understanding of what makes ag businesses tick, from the paddock to the boardroom.

She learnt early in her career that bosses who don't value people, spend an unreasonable amount of time managing performance or problematic behaviour. She will tell you that a good boss lights a fire inside people, not under them. Sally has an unshakeable belief that people power agriculture. She's committed to supporting the agri sector to build better, stronger and more profitable businesses through its people.

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In November 2018, Kendall Whyte, a 25-year-old woman from the remote country town of Mukinbudin, received the worst news anyone could hear. Her brother, Jayden, had tragically taken his own life while in Sydney.

Inspired by the image of a tree Jayden had once painted on the family farm, Kendall, along with her sister, Erryn, and her brother’s best friend, Simon, created the Blue Tree Project – a platform which would bring together people who have experienced mental health challenges or loss through suicide.

Mainly focusing on young men and rural families, The Blue Tree Project serves as an important visual conversation starter, undermining the stigma attached to mental wellbeing. It also aims to draw attention to the need for change in the medical system, so people like Jayden are taken better care of in times of crisis.

Be sure to listen to our earlier episode with Kendall by scrolling back through our catelogue.

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Other mentions in this episode: Black and C.U.T.E.

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Kaitlin Trebley is a Farm HR Advisor for Processworx. She works with a variety of Farmers Around WA to implement HR and Safety plans in accordance with the state and national policy. Having grown up on a family farm, Kaitlin has a huge passion for Agriculture. She also works along side her husband Mal in their Ag Contracting business. Kaitlin is based in Esperance, WA and is also part of the Chamber of Commerce, among a variety of other local initiatives. 

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