THE CONVERSATION. THERE’S ALWAYS A TRADEOFF. THE SMALL ARENA AT THE PENNSYLVANIA FARM SHOW WAS BARELY BIG ENOUGH FOR THE CROWD, WHO CAME TO HEAR BESTSELLING AUTHOR DOCTOR TEMPLE GRANDIN. THANK YOU FOR ...

According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, there are 1.2 million female producers – accounting for 36% of total producers. Here’s how four of them are crushing stereotypes and sharing life on the ...

Kiah Treece is a former attorney, small business owner and personal finance coach with extensive experience in real estate and financing. Her focus is on demystifying debt to help consumers and ...

Recent research suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running. If ...

A combine harvests soybeans near Wyoming, Iowa, in October 2023. New University of Iowa research looks into what women farmers in Iowa are stressed about. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo Heavy ...

Female farmers in Iowa are advocating for more women in the agriculture business as Women’s History Month comes to a close. The most recent number of Iowa farms with female producers totaled 45,786 of ...

SIR: As Nigeria grapples with the food shortage across, it is now time to re-think the pivotal role of women in promoting food sustainability. Women are natural beings with an innate potential to ...

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Natalina Atim (center) displays her cassava tubers after harvesting them from her group farm in Agoro-Maji, Magwi County, South Sudan. Photo: World Bank/ MAFS. More than 369,737 farmers (67% female) ...

It’s a late July morning, high summer in southern Ukraine, and Nadiia Ivanova’s farm blooms with waist-high sunflowers, golden stalks of flax and bushes of cilantro. The earthy smell of freshly ...

To protect India’s farmers, the government has stood firm — at considerable cost — against the US push to open up the country’s agriculture sector. However, much more is needed to remedy the Indian ...

Bhubaneswar: An increase in feminisation of farm operations in Odisha has prompted the agriculture department to introduce a standard operating procedure (SOP) for women-centric ergonomic testing of ...