Women More Likely to Run Small Farms


by YES! Magazine on Apr 24, 2014 | Views: 449 | Score: 1
% that are less than 180 acres
All Farms69
Farms with a female principal operator82
Sources: yesmagazine.org
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YES! Magazine on Apr 21, 2014 9:59 AM said:

Women-operated farms are generally smaller and less profitable than others... but women are also more likely than men to operate farms with a diversity of crops, to own a greater percentage of the land they farmed, and to sell food directly to the consumer rather than to large food-processing corporations. Read more here: bit.ly/1rcxvtK