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decades.
hirty years ago, if you looked around your typical dairy farm, most likely you would have found
a man in his mid-forties running a familyowned operation of about 40 or 50 dairy cows. Today, you’re likely to find a slightly different scenario. The proportion of women who count themselves as farm operators has increased substantially in the last three
The lure of working on a dairy farm and the challenge of being all things and doing all things is attractive to many women. Such is the case with Amanda Jefferson of Glenirwine Farm in Fergus, Ont.
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