Despite experience and education, "there is a gender gap with women doing farm work," says Emily Carlon. "Some people come in [to Landmark] and think you don't know too much."
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Perhaps they are the ones who don't know too much about the workforce composition in the agricultural, fisheries and forestry industries.
A National Farmer's Federation survey in 2016-17 showed 304,200 people were directly employed in Australian agriculture. In 2019, 41 per cent of that work force are women.
While the masculine farmer is the traditional view in agriculture, Mrs Carlon has shaped her career in the industry.
She studied environmental science at the University of New England, attending on a sports scholarship.
On graduation, she visited Otago on the south island of New Zealand for a wool tour after receiving the Peter West Blade Memorial Scholarship, worth $10,000.
Between her work as a merino consultant, for farm services group Landmark, at home on property 'Sylvia Vale', and as secretary of the Regional Flock Ewe Competition, she juggles life with two children under three years of age.
Mrs Carlon is highly involved in the decision-making at the farm she grew up on, 'Sylvia Vale' in Binda, and will eventually take it over with her husband.
Ultimately, "women just want to be treated as equals," Mrs Carlon says. "If you have a passion for something, do whatever it takes."
