Assumption College student hopes to one day own her own sheep operation

Andie Murphy hopes to one day own her own sheep farm.

The 15-year-old Assumption College, Kilmore, student is studying agriculture at the school.

"I'm not sure what I want to do yet, but I know I want to do something in agriculture," Ms Murphy said.

She heard about the opportunity to show sheep at her school and decided to give it a go.

"I love it," she said.

Ms Murphy was at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show in Bendigo, where her school entered a number of sheep in the Corriedale breed categories.

She said there were a number of female students talking about agriculture at her school, despite it being a male-dominated industry.

Assumption College agriculture teacher Frank Pereira helped set up the program at the school.

Mr Pereira hopes more young people will consider pursuing a career in the industry.

"We're not the biggest school in Victoria to have kids studying agriculture," he said.

"We have close to 400 students in years 8-12 studying agriculture."

Mr Pereira said he believed there was a high number of young people who didn't realise the wide range of opportunities in the industry.

"What agriculture does is, it enables a student with whatever abilities he or she has to find a niche," he said.

"If human beings want to ea,t it's a pretty important industry.

"So as long as people want to eat, you'll never be out of a job."