Tag: Women in Farming

Finishing 1,200 bullocks and heifers with a Lely Vector

VIDEO: ‘I get some funny looks when people realise it’s a woman driving a tractor’

‘Most young people do not understand the work involved with sheep’ – 185-ewe full-time farmer

‘Agriculture was always seen as a man’s career pathway’ – 30-cow dairy farmer

‘I tried to hide my interest in farming as a young girl’

‘If someone told me I would be living in Ireland on a dairy farm, I would have never believed it’

‘The level of female farm ownership is pitifully low’

‘When I was 13, I got my first job in a mart canteen’

‘I am driving a John Deere 7400 harvester for the past three seasons’

New video series challenges perceptions about women in agriculture