Month: December 2021

“I feel deep respect for each of the amazing women who manage a farm”

Doris Letina, apple farmer and Vice-President of CEJA She is young, she is ambitious, she grew up on a farm and represents the second generation of women there, and she is very involved in organisations for young farmers in Europe. Women in Ag talked to Doris Letina, Slovenian apple farmer and Vice-President of CEJA, the […]

Women in Ag #4

Women in Ag 4 is out now! We are proud to present you with this fourth and final edition of Women in Ag for 2021 while looking forward to talking to the new women already lining up for the 2022 editions! In this fourth issue, we bring you the stories of Marieke De Vos (Belgium), […]

“Everyone likes progress, but no one wants change”,

Valerie Walpot, farm manager, New Zealand Valerie Walpot grew up in the Voer region, where her love for agriculture started. Goign for a career in agriculture always was the idea. Today, Valerie works at a beef and lamb darm… in New Zealand! Women in Ag asked her to tell her story. “As a baby, I […]

Farm tourism in the Zeeland polders (Netherlands)

with Martine van Wesemael In Zeeuws Vlaanderen, the Netherlands, in a unique landscape of mud flats and salt marshes, we find the “Mariahoeve” (“Maria Farm”). The Mariahoeve is a family business, with contracting and arable farming branches plus the cultivation of special, salt tolerant vegetables. But Martine van Wesemael’s real passion is to introduce people […]

Strengthening mental health at home

by Melanie Epp As most farm families know well, farm life can be both demanding and stressful. Add to that the burden of adverse weather events, fluctuating commodity prices, family hardships, and a global health crisis, and you’ve got the makings of a mental health catastrophe. But what all of these things have in common […]

HRH Queen Mathilde of Belgium visits farm near Brussels as part of Belgian fair Agribex’s Ladies Day

Yesterday, HRH Queen Mathilde of Belgium visited the dairy farm Koeweidehof in Merchtem, just outside Brussels, where she talked to eight women in agriculture. The conversation took place in the context of the Ladies Day, which was supposed to take place on December 9th at the Belgian agriculture fair Agribex which had to cancel due […]

“Working outdoors among the orchards energizes me!”

Eveline Jacques – Technical Advisor Fruit at Bayer Eveline Jacques joined Bayer at the beginning of 2020 as a Technical Advisor Fruit. She grew up among apples and pears, studied biology, assisted and doctored at university and worked for a time in the family fruit business and as a buyer for a supermarket chain. She […]

From city life to ranching in Brazil

Tiara Sauaia, rancher, Maranhão (Brazil) Tiara Sauaia might originally be from Kansas, she wasn’t born into farming. In fact, she never thought the rural life would be for her, growing up in the suburbs. Her heart decided otherwise: Tiara fell in love with a rancher and, after six years of working, travelling and living in […]