Raising the next generation

Jasmine Green is the sixth generation to farm beef cattle on a sprawling property in the Southern Tablelands of NSW. Today, with her husband Hayden, Jasmine is proudly raising the family’s next generation – their fourmonth-old son Arthur.

When the weather isn’t too hot, Jasmine pops Arthur in his baby carrier and does her chores on the land with her son nestled close to her. She cares for her cattle, showcases and sells bulls and makes enough hay to feed the herds.

“I’m glad Arthur is going to have the lifestyle I had as a child,” says Jasmine, 31.

“Grandma would collect us from the school bus and take us to the paddocks to have afternoon smoko with everyone. We’d ride in the tractors and look after the chooks. I had a pony, too.” At boarding school, Jasmine showed cattle with the school team and then spent six months working on a farm in the US. During a snowstorm one winter she remembers pulling calves out of snowdrifts and warming them up so they didn’t freeze to death. Jasmine then studied Livestock Science at university and is a quality assurance and control manager with a major abattoir in Wagga Wagga. She works with more than 9000 beef producers across the country and juggles this with running the farm with Hayden, who she met through showing cattle. They married in 2017 in the local showground pavilion, where wh Jasmine often competed co in country shows. In 2012 she won the prestigious pr 50th Sydney Royal R Showgirl title. The competition c highlights the important im work done by women w in agriculture. “My family has always been b involved in my local l country show, so representing my home town was a huge honour,” says Jasmine.