dairy

“This is a female dominated farm”

Paula Hynes, dairy farmer, Ireland Their family’s farm won the Zurich Ireland Dairy Farmer of the Year Award in 2017 and is very much female dominated, and they never miss an opportunity to try and inform the public about where their food comes from. An encounter with Paula Hynes, who runs a dairy farm alongside […]

“It is good to have a little time to yourself to do something you enjoy every day”

Emma McCormack, dairy farm manager, Ireland Emma McCormack grew up on a small farm on the rural countryside in the Irish Midlands, and it is there that her love for the lands and the animals that walk it began. She and her four sisters and three brothers grow up among the family’s Charolais cattle, bred […]

“Women in agriculture are tough cookies!”

Els Lippens, dairy farmer, USA Els Lippens grew up in Belgium, but moved to the United States with her parents almost twenty years ago. This farmer’s granddaughter learned the ropes of her trade on the dairy farm her father built from scratch in South Dakota, never to return to her home country. Today she and […]

Marieke Gouda: the female owned Dutch cheese that conquered America

Marieke Penterman (44) is a proud mother of five, a farmer’s daughter in heart and soul and a passionate entrepreneur living and working in America. She left her life in the Netherlands for good in 2003 to start a dairy farm in Wisconsin with her husband Rolf. The pride of the farm is the authentic […]