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The International Year of the Woman Farmer is here to recognize the women who power American agriculture and agribusiness.

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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 ...

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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 ...

Women are essential to agriculture, as leaders on and off the farm, from running a farm or ranch business to advocating on Capitol Hill. The American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership program provides ...

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 ...

Things have come a long way since the 1980s. But women still do not have the equal economic access they deserve.