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“Diversity is a good thing and we need to embrace it”

Marrit Kyung Ok Schakel, farmer and cheesemaker, Hoogmade (Netherlands)   In the Western world, from where we write, agriculture is not only mostly a male industry but also a predominantly white one. As Karen Washington explained to us in the March edition of this magazine, it is simply a lot less evident for non-whites to […]

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Mental well-being in young farmers

Evy Mettepenningen   The mental well-being of farmers has been under pressure for a while. A recent study by the Belgian Agriculture and Fisheries Agency shows that well-being among Flemish farmers has been systematically declining over the past decade and is lower than that of the average Flemish person. What about farmers-to-be, the new generation […]

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“There is no one way to do something”

Ayşe Öksüz, dairy farmer and veterinary student, Eskişehir (Turkey)   Ayşe Öksüz from Eskişehir in central Turkey is only 21 years old, but she has been running her own farm for five years. The veterinary student is passionate about Jersey cows and in the process of building up a dairy farm with the help of […]

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