‘Losing My Sight Won't Stop Me!'

Zoe Rowe somehow manages to run a huge farm… even though she can’t see the animals she loves

- Dan Proudman

With her three trusty companions on one side and an 80-strong herd of 700kg Brahman cows on the other, farmer Zoe Rowe carefully maneuvers the all-terrain vehicle across the dustbowl of a paddock for another day of hand-feeding.

But this isn’t as easy as it appears, because a rare genetic disorder has slowly stolen the 29-year-old’s sight and she now has less than 12 per cent vision.

Just don’t tell this incredible young woman she can’t do it!

“I have not had a day off since March last year, and that’s not special out here. No one has days off,’’ Zoe says.

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“I have a photographic memory. If there is a hole in the ground or a log in a paddock, I know exactly where it is. The specialists can only tell me how much sight I’ve lost and it’s happening so slowly now that I would rather just get on with it.”