Women in Agriculture
Breeding Kunekune pigs fits like a glove for Hand
WASHINGTON — For most of the last two decades, Amanda Hand has been a typical military spouse, moving her family every two years or so when her husband, Jason, was relocated.But after 21 years of service with the U.S. Navy, Jason retired,...
‘Sky is the limit’ for women entering ag industry
HUNTINGTOWN, Md. — In just the years she has been in college, Emma Mullineaux has seen the change in more women entering the agriculture industry. When she started, she said only three other women shared her major — but now about to graduate in...
Growing sunflowers brighten farm woman’s life
Buchanan, Va. — A field of golden sunflowers has turned into a boost in income at the Beaver Dam Dairy in Botetourt County, Va., and a bright spot in the community for about 10 days each September. Candace Monaghan, a fourth-generation farmer, is...
Dotterer-Pyle tells her truth on dairy
UNION BRIDGE, Md. — Katie Dotterer-Pyle doesn’t look like a dairy farmer. Or so she’s been told. But she’s never been anything but a dairy farmer. The 33-year-old grew up on a family farm near Penn State University, the oldest in the third...
Campbell aims to alter image of women in ag
WEST RIVER, Md. — While organizing an annual conference dedicated to women in agriculture several years ago, Sarah Campbell said she needed stock photos of women farming for a promotional poster. She went online and searched. “It was like a...
Zilberfarb intent on keeping ag’s message out
SALISBURY, Md. — It’s only been a year since Susanne Zilberfarb stepped into the role of Executive Director for the Maryland Soybean Board, but she’s hardly a new face. Zilberfarb, who is also the Executive Director of the Delaware Soybean...
Delmarva has great role models for women in ag (Credit Corner)
Women have always played an essential role in our nation’s agriculture industry — more now than ever before. Did you know that in 1987, only 6.3 percent of farm operators in the United States were women? Fast forward to 2012, and that...
Jones has seen perception of female farmers turn around
APPOMATTOX, Va. (Sept. 5, 2017) — Joann Jones said she always had a passion for agriculture. She grew up on a small farm in Virginia. And from the time she was 16, she has always worked on farms. Now, she owns her own, Dark Leaf Farm, in Appomattox, with her husband,...
Women getting drawn to niches of local agriculture
(Sept. 5, 2017) Despite female farmers producing more than half of the world’s food, women farmers in the United States are still seen as the exception rather than the rule. That is, unless you’re at a local farmers market, a niche agricultural conference or the like....
For Hance-Wells, it’s better to be called a ‘good farmer’ rather than a ‘woman farmer’
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. (Sept. 5, 2017) — Being born a girl didn’t exclude Susie Hance-Wells from working on the farm. The youngest of three sisters, Hance-Wells said she avoided doing housework with her sisters, choosing to work on the farm with her dad instead. She...
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