When Marji Guyler-Alaniz started FarmHer, a campaign to make women in agriculture more visible, she would often point out that women account for around a third of all primary and secondary operators involved in production agriculture. The latest U.S. Census of Agriculture indicates their numbers are becoming even more significant. According to National Agricultural Statistical Services new report, released on April 11, male ag producers declined 1.7 percent since the last survey five years ago, while the number of female producers increased nearly 27 percent over that same time period, accounting for nearly all of the overall increase in agricultural producers (from 3...
