Month: February 2021

Murielle Joskin: “More and more women working at JOSKIN! ”

JOSKIN is a true Belgian success story, and Murielle Joskin is one of the three women at the head of the company, founded by her father in 1968. “I am actually a physiotherapist, but grew up around my parents’ company and have always been interested in event organizing. After helping organize the celebration of […]

“Women should be a bit prouder of what they do!”

Mieke Vanderschueren (28) has many titles and a full career in agriculture to look back on: lady of honour in the “Schoonste Boerin van Vlaanderen” (Miss Flanders Farmer) contest, Belgian tractorpulling champion and several prizes with the pride of her breeding program: her red Holstein Annelies 8. “I grew up on my parents’ farm and […]

Tine and Karin Magnus: “everybody pitches in equally around the farm”

Tine Magnus and her mother Karin are endive producers near Brussels, Belgium. The family exploitation is composed of Tine, Karin and Tine’s brother and father Sam and Johan. The tasks are divided equally among the family. Karin is responsible for the last steps in the process: packing the endives and quality control, along with personnel, […]

Tine Dezeure: “women with a technical profile are hard working experts”

Tine Dezeure (35) is one of the strong women at the head of the Belgian family business and renowned overload trailers manufacturer Dezeure. A Master in Science with specialisation in Electromechanical Engineering, Tine knows every aspect of building agricultural machines and used to love taking over the wheel of a combine from her father when […]

Alpine cattle drive

July 14th, Les Gourniers, Réallon, French Alps : the cattle are brought up to the mountains. Every summer, the cattle of the region is assembled in the tiny mountain hamlet of Les Gourniers, sitting at the entrance of the Ecrins National Parc, a 93.000 hectares nature reserve in the French high Alps. On the French national […]