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What The Skimm founders and beef blogger Amanda Radke can teach us about telling our stories in 2020

June 19, 2020

Rebecca Shaw Pfeffer

Editor’s note: This article is the latest in a series from Rebecca Shaw about female entrepreneurs. The year 2020 will go down in history books.

RancHER: Kady Porterfield

May 22, 2020

Kady Porterfield is the current president of the Washington CattleWomen organization. She grew up raising beef on her family’s cattle ranch.

Janeal Yancey is a meat scientist with the University of Arkansas. She grew up showing sheep and hogs in 4-H and FFA but wasn’t involved in the cattle industry until she and her husband married in 2005. She also runs the blog Mom at the Meat Counter.

Expanding your voice: Women in Dairy panelists share views on board representation

January 15, 2020

Emily Barge

Serving on boards, both in the dairy industry and beyond, allows dairy professionals to personally impact their communities and shape the future of the industry. For many dairy producers, board representation provides an avenue to expand their voices and develop mutually beneficial networking relationships.

RancHER: Chelsea Good

October 24, 2019

Chelsea Good is the vice president of government and industry affairs and legal with the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA).

RancHER: Lesley Schmidt

August 23, 2019

RancHER is a column spotlighting female leaders in the beef industry. In this issue, we are featuring Lesley Schmidt, a fifth-generation cattle rancher and farmer in Kansas. She has worked on her family farm all her life and has worked off the farm as a civil designer and a track and field official for almost 12 years. In addition to her on- and off-the-farm jobs, Schmidt serves as vice president of education for American Agri-Women.

RancHER: Brenda Younkin

June 24, 2019

Progressive Cattle would like to introduce RancHER, a new column spotlighting female leaders in the beef industry. This month, we are featuring Brenda Younkin, a natural resources specialist. She and her husband own and manage Y2 Consultants, a Wyoming-based small business specializing in engineering, natural resources management, GIS, landscape architecture, land surveying and land planning.

Wisconsin woman selected to oversee Milking Shorthorn show

September 28, 2018

Ashley Abbott

Whether running a clipboard ringside or stalling show strings in the barn, Suzanne Lois is no stranger to Milking Shorthorn exhibitors at World Dairy Expo and, as of this year, she will be the official go-to gal as the breed’s superintendent.

What makes a good female leader in dairy?

November 24, 2015

Jenna Hurty-Person

Women in dairy are a diverse group with one common passion: dairy. These women are leaders and, like every good leader, they have people they look up to who challenged and inspired them to be who they are today.

FarmHer: Updating the image of farming one picture at a time

November 24, 2015

Jenna Hurty-Person

Dodge wowed the nation two-and-a-half years ago with its Super Bowl commercial “So God made a farmer.” While many producers appreciated the recognition for the hard work and dedication they put into their profession, this salute to American agriculture showed only a few female producers.

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