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5 days ago

This is the hardest I've ever lived': meet the US cowgirls making it as ranchers

Savanah McCarty was not riding across the wide-open prairie when a horse accident nearly killed her. She was in the driveway of her leased farm outside Bozeman, Montana, waiting for a student's mother to arrive, when her horse seized and flipped over backwards, landing on top of her. The horse, it turned out, had a neurological disorder linked to possum urine. McCarty never imagined it could cause this.
Agriculture
Agriculture
fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

'Farms wouldn't be as successful without the women behind them,' says first woman named Young Farmer of the Year

Aileen Sheehan, a Cork dairy farmer, won the FBD competition as its first female winner, honored for sustainability and biodiversity on her farm.
Agriculture
fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

Cork dairy farmer becomes first female FBD Young Farmer of the Year

Aileen Sheehan is the first female winner of the competition's 27-year history and urges women in agriculture to step forward.
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