Born on 6th February 1932, Anne Perchard is the patron of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau and in 2001 was awarded an MBE for her services to the Jersey Breed worldwide.

Anne was educated at St Martin’s Parish School and won a States’ scholarship to Jersey College for Girls in 1944. Leaving school at 16, Anne worked on the family farm until her marriage. She was the first Vice-Chairperson of the Jersey Young Farmers’ Club at the age of 14. She began farming on her own in 1970, with a heard of sixty Jersey cows, twelve sows and chickens. She also grew twelve vergees of Jersey Royal potatoes.

In 1970, Anne was a member of the first Juvenile Court Panel and in 1980, with three sons, she formed La Ferme Ltd, which now farms two thousand vergees and has a herd of four hundred and twenty Jerseys. She was the first and only woman director of the Jersey Milk Marketing Board for nine years and vice-president of the Royal Jersey Horticultural & Agricultural Society for six years.

In 1989, Anne was appointed the President of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau (an international association of the Jersey breed now with thirty-three member countries), becoming a patron in 1992. In her role as President, she visited Jersey breeders in thirty countries.