THREE BRITISH WOMEN ARE READY TO CHALLENGE IN AGRICULTURE...
Hannah Jackson was helping a farmer get his sheep ready for a country show, when he told her to let "the lads down the road" groom the rams because they were "far too strong" for her. The 27-year-old did not listen. "I went into the pen where there were these big male sheep, flipped one on its bum and started filing its feet," she says. "I'd stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any man." More and more women like Hannah, who now runs her own farm, are entering the male-dominated UK agriculture industry. About 17% of farmers are female, up from 7% in 2007-8, according to last year's Office for National Statistics' annual population survey . Hannah, who grew up in Wirral, near Liverpool, did not consider farming as a career until she witnessed a lamb being born while walking in the Lake District, aged 20. "I'd never seen anything like it," she says. "To watch the natural instincts of the lamb kicking and how wel...