The fourth-generation dairy farmer said women should look to cheese as a way to support the dairy farming community.

“It came about because research shows there’s not enough women eating dairy products, particularly in the over 50s,” she said of the campaign.

“They (Dairy Australia) decided they would do a small campaign about it.

The online video shows female dairy farmers, producers and cheesemongers talking about their work and the dairy industry.

The clips encourage women to support their health and their dairy industry through a simple action – eating more Aussie cheese.

“They approached me and said ‘Karen would you be interested in this role?’,”she said 

“We went to a farm near Colac two hours west of Melbourne and filmed there over a day, in November last year.”

Dairy Australia Dietitian Glenys Zucco said there were many health benefits to eating cheese and instead of restricting their intake, most Australian women should be looking to increase their daily consumption of cheese.

“Accumulated research shows that there is a wealth of health benefits linked with the consumption of cheese, which is a valuable source of naturally occurring essential nutrients,” she said.

“It takes more than 10 litres of milk to produce just one kilogram of cheese, which means that cheese is a super concentrated source of nutrients.

“The volume of milk required for cheese production also means that adding more cheese to your diet really does have a beneficial impact on our Australian dairy industry.”

Mrs Moroney milks 200 Aussie Reds with her husband Wayne in the Mitta Valley and remained confident the sector would bounce back as Murray Goulburn's extraordinary general meeting on April 5 to vote on the proposed sale to Canadian dairy giant Saputo loomed.

“There’s a cautious optimism but all of us feel quite sad about what happened to Murray Goulburn but once you accept that you have to move on,” she said.

“Everyone needs certainty because that’s our income so everyone is waiting for the sale of Murray Goulburn to Saputo Dairy, we’re envisaging that’s what’s going to happen.

“Dairy will never lose its importance but the continual knocks in confidence is very hard … but we have been here before.

“I believe up in the North East, once there’s certainty around the sale of MG, you will start to see people regain confidence.”