Women in STEM

Agritechnica 2025 retrospective: impressive as always

In mid-November, Agritechnica in Hannover, Germany, closed its doors. The biennial celebration of agricultural machinery lasted a whole week. 476.000 visitors from 171 countries admired the shiny machines in 22 different halls. Those are incredible numbers. Traditionally, several awards were also presented at Agritechnica, with the highlight for us, of course, being the Women in […]

“Lack of representation is not a sign you don’t belong, it is a sign the field needs more voices like yours”

Arha Padman, winner of the FIRA Women in Agrobotics Award 2025 This year was not only the year of a historic fourth edition of the Women in Ag Awards at AgriTechnica, but also the launch of the Women in AgRobotics Award by the renown robotics tradeshow FIRA USA. The award, designed to shine a […]

“Now that I’m here I am finally realising that yes, maybe I deserve this prize too.”

Cécile Deterre is the CTO of Blue Planet Ecosystems (Vienna) and winner of the Women in Ag Award, category “Technology & Research” If you weren’t at the Women in Ag Awards ceremony on November 12th, you missed out. Never have there been so many winners, laureates, candidates and former winners present in Hannover. Among them […]

Women in Ag Magazine 24-003

As autumn has well and truly set in here in our part of the world and we celebrate International Day of Rural Women, we have a brand new magazine to present and announced the winners of the third edition of the Women in Ag Awards. I couldn’t think of a more fitting date for both. […]

“It would be great to see more women developing and testing agricultural machines”

Dr. Ute David, AGCO Plant Manager, Feucht (Germany) Like the agricultural sector, the field of agri-business is predominantly male. We were therefore delighted to meet Dr. Ute David during a factory visit to the AGCO plant in Feught, Germany. Dr. David is the Plant Manager of the factory where mowers, tedders and rakes are built […]

International Day of Women and Girls in Science with Angela Falagario

Last Sunday, we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The initiative comes from the United Nations, in an effort to call attention to a persistent issue in terms of gender equality: the still significant gender gap in STEM all over the world. Two women who unintentionally show the way to young […]

International Day of Women and Girls in Science with Claudia Campanella

Last Sunday might have seemed like an ordinary day to most, but for women and girls in science, it is a very important one. On February 11, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The initiative comes from the United Nations, in an effort to call attention to a persistent issue […]