• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH002417

Merilyn Plant interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
  • Reference ORAL TRC 3406/30
  • Date Range 14-Feb-95 - 14-Feb-95
  • Description

    1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.) Plant speaks of what brought her to farming, starting the group Poll-Hers, her husband being a state president of the Poll Hereford Society, funding the recipe book about beef, promoting poll herefords and beef, involvement of her daughter in the breeding area, changes of ownership of farms and its effect on the younger generation, stress experienced by other families in the rural community, means used to encourage people to cheer up in times of hardship, lack of rain main problem, future of the beef industry and positive approach from the Army.

  • Access Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
  • Finding Aid Transcript available (typescript, 25 leaves.)

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  • Primary Creator
    • Plant, Merilyn (1946 - )