In 2015, Bess gave this interview to the ABC:

Bess Vickers is an 88-year-old grazier farming sheep and cattle on her property 'Stanfield' near Carcoar in central west New South Wales. She still musters and checks stock on her quad bike with her dogs each day.

What is your connection to this farm?

I just belong here because this is where my family belonged. My grandfather arrived on this property more than 150 years ago in the 1860s. 

I can really empathise with the aboriginal concept of the land owning them; 'I don't own the land, the land is my responsibility.'

Can you describe the biggest change you have witnessed?

Ahhh well tractors made a big difference. All the paddocks are smaller. 

Socially, as a child my parents always spoke to and of their friends as Mr and Mrs, nobody was called by their Christian name, so that has been a big social change. 

What makes you stay?

I stay because it is the thing I like doing. As I tell the agent when I am travelling with him, I am a hobby farmer really because a hobby farmer is doing something they love doing; so I'm a hobby farmer. 

Lately when its been cold I've been going around the paddocks in my car! So I reckon I'm a gentleman farmer, that I 'go around the farm in the limousine!" 

What will your land look like in 70 years time? 

You're talking around about the next turn of the century I guess. I never thought I'd see this one but I'm glad I have! 

I hope that it will still have pasture on it, I hope there will still be some trees about, I hope there will be native birds and animals with habitat available to them.

But I don't know that that will happen. About 35,000 trees have been planted on this property and I have personally planted about 20,000 of those.