Where Female Farmers Are Flourishing.

Nearly half of all farmers in Alaska are women, well above the average of about 36% nationwide. There are several factors behind the trend, Modern Farmer magazine reports, but two of them are the financial resources available to female farmers and a blossoming of peony growers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Services Agency sets aside loan money for...

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