Posted on : 27-02-2009 | By : grace
Last five years the result of the 2002 census for women ran the farms is 237, 819 and now it has increase to 30 percent. Women in the west are listed as principal operators on about 14 percent of all U.S farmers according to the Census of Agriculture in the year 2007. It contains 306, 209 operators of women from farmers or ranchers in the west side. In the state like the Washington, California, Idaho and Oregon farms are controlled by the women in five years. More than half of this states have the women as the major operators.
Jane Burns of Nampa in Idaho is one of them. She operates the Meadowlark Farm for 20 years and recently raises poultry and sheep. She is working in a partnership to process the chickens and selling the meat in Boise area farmer’s markets. She enjoys selling her own products in farmers’ markets and the opportunity for personal contact with her customers. Burns owns 10 acres on Nampa’s eastern edge, 21 miles from her main market in Boise. She leases seven more acres, plus some pasture near Caldwell for a few sheep.
Burns is just one of the thousands women in town who operates there own farms. Women primarily operate 12.43 percent of the said state farms in 2007. Women were listed as one of the top three operators on 12,646 Idaho farms, or 49.89 percent all those in the state.
In neighboring country Oregon, listed the highest percentage of women operates there farm in. Women run 21.41 percent or 8,255 operations of farms in the state. Nearly two out of every three Oregon farms – 64.83 percent – have women as one of the top three operators.
Washington and California also exceed the national average of women as primary and secondary operators that have been said in the Capital Press. Women in the Washington operates the farms are 20.59 percent and in California it take 18.47 percent in 2007. It’s an increase of 43.6 percent since 2002 in Washington and 18.6 in California.
Nationally the census shows women are one of the top three operators on 44.68 percent of all farms and ranches. That’s 985,192 farms or ranches out of the 2.2 million operations in the nation.
