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Hannah grew up in the Wirral, near Liverpool, but moved to the Cumbrian countryside to be a farmer

Hannah Jackson was a farmer his sheep that are willing to help, to show for a country, when he said to her, you let "the guys down the street" groom the rams because they were "Too Strong " for you.

The 27-Year -old did not want to hear. "I went into the pen, where this large male sheep, put man on his bum, and began with the submission of your feet," she says. "I would stand shoulder to shoulder with a man. "

more and More women like Hannah, who now runs her own farm, in the male-dominated Kingdom of the agriculture industry.

About 17% of the farmers are female, 7% in 2007-8,.

Hannah, who grew up in the Wirral, close to Liverpool, do not consider agriculture as a career, until a lamb saw is born, during a walk in the Lake District , at the age of 20 years.

"I had never seen anything like this," she says. To observe "The Natural instincts of The Lamb and how well the mum was mothering was incredible. "

Six Years later, she leads a small farm in Cumbria with a herd of 120 sheep, while also looking After the herds, the farms on other nearby farmer. "I lamb, thousands of sheep every Year now, but it is still just as great," she says.

But it was not easy. "I had people that would not give me a chance when I originally came in agriculture: I had Red Hair , I was a proper Scouse, I would never have a farm, and I was female, so I had a lot of different obstacles I wanted to overcome. "

Although women always says in British agriculture, Hannah, that you, in The Past , usually in the background.

Now, Social Media is, if women, she says, a platform to "shout about it".

Hannah is called the "Red shepherdess", After their distinctive scarlet Hair and has almost 25,000 followers on Twitter and 16,000 on Instagram.

it also made a name for himself, After he appear to be one of The First women to be on the Channel 4 reality show SAS: Who Dares, Wins, in which ex-special forces soldier recruits through the SAS selection process.

she says she is not afraid of the manual labor on The Farm . "The Last thing I'll do is on my tractor," she says. "I would literally prefer to shift it with my hands. "

Liz Haines, who works as a dairy farmer in North Shropshire, says potential female farmers should not be swayed by the physical work. The 30-Year -old studied English at Oxford University and worked in publishing in London for several years before you take to decide, to the agriculture with her husband.

"I'm not, by nature, an outdoorsy person," she says. "I'm a bookworm, so it's been a massive change for me. I do myself surprised by what I'm able to. "

Liz says she is able to be employed, while younger children

It's not a negative perception in the UK that agriculture she says for academic people. "My husband was told: 'You're a clever boy, you should not go into agriculture. '

"Actually, both of us have much more money, what do we do with the dairy husbandry of cattle than we would have if we'd stayed in our respective careers. "

agriculture has allowed her to continue working during the search of two small children, now aged one and three.

When your children were babies, carried them to the cooperation with you in a sling. "I don't know if I could have done that with an office job," she says. "It is not really the thing to work your baby with you. "

There are drawbacks to children while working on The Farm were, however. Her first son was born during calving - "a crazy, hectic time of the Year " - and as a new mom Liz had to monitor the calves on your laptop from your hospital bed.

Young Women are also prove to farm in urban areas. Sinead Fenton, 28, was the cultivation of vegetables and edible flowers side-by-side on a small plot of land in East London for More Than a Year . She says, "the flower-led" growing technology promotes pollinators, while reducing problems with pests.

she says she developed a "really bad relationship" with food, when she was a child, and was eager to try something new.

"It is very clever marketing in the food system. It tells you our food is better than anything you can cook yourself, so you put your trust in us and eat our product.

"I was so used to food that's not Packed, that I understand really, homemade food. It just felt safer that eat the stuff. I basically lived on a diet of Hash Browns , beans and dry noodles. "

But interested in food while working in Mongolia. "We were in the desert, and we had a goat. Then, One Day , we have a goat had not," she says. "That was the First Time that I faced what the meat was, in fact, not only is this thing that comes in packets in Tesco. "

At the time, Sinead - Geology-graduate work was in the mining industry. "You work in an industry that was so untenable, I wanted to try, and the channel itself, in something that was more sustainable and made a noticeable change," she says.

Sinead gave up a career in the mining industry to Grow Vegetables

she says, cultivation of vegetables gave her a sense of purpose, and you discovered a supportive network of female farmers, growing food in the capital.

more and More women follow them in the British agriculture. The female students, men are now nearly 2:1 on the agriculture and related courses of study, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Meanwhile, around 44% of the agriculture, horticulture and animal care vocational trainees were women in 2017-18 - from 39% in 2014-15, according to data from The Department for environment, food and Rural Affairs.

Sinead says, she is proud of what she has achieved since she started growing vegetables.

"even Though we have managed on a small scale, we have done it really well. I feel big-headed or cocky to say that, but I'm learning to see my Success . "She pauses, then adds: "It's a strange thing to do, as a woman - or is it?"

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Source of news: bbc.com