Women in Agriculture

Successful Farming's Women in Ag section is designed to connect and further farm women in all dimensions of farm and family life. This section includes posts from our Women in Ag bloggers.
Heather Lifsey touring Claas plant
From the assembly line to the boardroom, women are key at Claas
Heather Lifsey reading El Campo newspaper in Chile
Ag journalists from around the world face similar challenges
Heather Lifsey at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile
Ag at the embassy
Heather Lifsey at NY produce market
Providing produce to The Big Apple
Kate Honeycutt with sunflowers
Finding a new path in farming
Heather Lifsey at Mardi Gras World
Finding agriculture at Mardi Gras
Heather Lifsey talking to strawberry farmers at a conference.
Say 'yes' to the meeting
Heather Lifsey and sons camping
Camping on a 400-year-old farm
Heather Lifsey at Sunburst Trout Farm
Trout farming in North Carolina
Sweet Potato
Promoting a 'sweet' super food at the Food and Nutrition Conference
Farm and Market Denver
Former potato warehouse gets new life as urban farm and restaurant
Woodard family spreading out one of their blankets on their family farm
Covered in Cotton: How a farm family turned a crisis into comfort
Hannah Klitz surrounded by her cattle
How Hannah Klitz built a direct to consumer beef business from the ground up
Elizabeth Burns-Thompson headshot illustration
Q&A with Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, Navigator CO2 Executive
School nutrition director meets farmers
School nutrition directors on the farm
local food at elementary lunch
Farm-to-table school lunch
Andrea and Michael pose on the farm
Cultivating healing and education at Huck and Buck Farm-Sanctuary
tractor bumps car
Tractor meets car
farmers market on St Croix
Visiting an island farmers market
alpacca in barn
Farming for fiber
Rosemary Anderson (center) with her "A.I. girl gang," Hazy Delzer (left) and Clara Schmid (right).
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Rosemary Anderson, Nebraska rancher
Cookbook and flower display for Arlene Prater
Remembering the good stuff
Lisa Foust Prater on the Washington Island Ferry
2023 Reporter's Notebook: On the road again with Lisa Foust Prater
A mid-adult blonde woman getting a mammogram. She is being helped by a Black nurse.
Rural women have limited access to breast cancer detection
An illustration of a couple is split in half. The woman is in front of a black-and-white house, she is reaching to hold the hand of a man, who stands in a field.
Farmer's wife asks: Will harvest season always feel so lonely?
Danielle Venable illustration
Danielle Venable navigates relationships on the family farm
Beef cows grazing
A farmer's perspective on climate change for National Ag Day
Field on First Fruits farm
Changing fields
A cluttered closet
Clutter busting 101
woman speaking
Women's Ag Leadership Conference celebrates 25 years
New farmers of America book
Discovering the New Farmers of America
spelling sweetpotato as one word
A sweet spelling
cluttered office
Clutter causes chaos
self-care Barbie
Make self-care a priority
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Q&A with Nakita Hemingway, cut-flower farmer and politician
woman speaking
Attend a Women in Ag conference in 2023
thinking about life
How are you really?
Christmas tree farm
Picking the perfect Christmas tree
Christmas with cows
Christmas with cows
soybean_sunset_landscape
Reporter's notebook: 2022 in the rearview
reading to students
Christmas in the classroom
Magan Lewis
Q&A: Magan Lewis, equipment and automated field sensing lead at Bayer Crop Science
Venison with blackberry sauce
Venison with blackberry sauce
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Q&A: Katherine Marcano-Bell, Dominican Republic native and Iowa farmer
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Mom on many missions
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Ruth Kimmelshue of Cargill to address sustainability at Women in Agribusiness Summit
Classic Successful Farming covers featuring mothers
Successful Farming celebrates moms
Lisa Prater by pool with book
Why farm moms who always put themselves last shouldn't
White pottery mug with Farm Hard Live Well saying
Gifts from farm moms for farm moms
Midwest Farm Wives: Whitney Larson & Kylie Epperson
Midwest Farm Wives: 7 tips to stay sane during a busy season
Sheena Krueger supervises workers harvest 40 acres of watermelons from the Krueger Farm outside of Letts, Iowa
A gift guide for your favorite on-the-go farm mom
farmer panel at Family and consumer science meeting
Connecting with family & consumer sciences
Women's Land Army worker
Wartime farm women fought from home
Darlene Graf now
Catching up with a Successful Farming cover girl
Cattle at fence
Not all boundaries are physical
FarmHER panel
Engaging with the community
sweetpotato and yam
I yam not a sweet potato
show pigs
Earning a blue ribbon outside the show ring
conference
Invest in your own growth
reading bedtime stories
Bedtime reading with Christmas trees
Christmas tree
Oh, Christmas tree!
cotton picker cleaning
Farming can be a fire hazard
Sweet potato harvest
Think, don't just thank