<p>Women in agriculture are getting better educated than men, they are older than the average farm worker, and they are veering away from management.</p> <p>Those are the findings from the latest snapshot of agricultural workers, put together by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.</p> <p>The study found that while the number of women in agriculture rose between 2011 and 2016, the number of managers fell from 41,982 in 2011 to 37,787 in 2016.</p> <p>Women made up 28 per cent of all managers in the industry in 2016, with about half the women in agriculture working as managers.</p> <strong><a href="https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/5827459/farm-women-study-harder/" target="_blank">Read the full story online at The Advocate website.</a></strong>

They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but Alice Mabin’s latest two books speak volumes.<br /><br />The rural photographer documented the Australian Agricultural industry in a two book series called The Grower The Heartbeat of Australia and The Grower: Roots of Australia.<br /><br />The images have captured the essence of what it means to live on the land.<br /><br />They are a photographic insight into the farming industry with the purpose to help people understand the hardship our primary producers face.<br /><br />Ms Mabin began her journey travelling across Australia to more than 550 properties to document life on the land in June 2017.<br /><br />She visited stations throughout the rugged outback called Gypsy Plains, Qamby, Iffley Station, Tobermorey Station, Rockhampton Downs and Bull Creek to name a few.<br /><br />“It takes courage to have the hard conversations and challenge public perceptions for the betterment of farmers and our nation as a whole,” she said.<br /><strong><a href="https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/5813100/shining-a-light-on-agriculture-through-the-lens/?cs=191" target="_blank"><br />For the full article click through to the North West Star website </a></strong>

New research from the Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics Sciences has shown Australia’s agricultural workforce to be growing and getting younger.<br /><br />The recently released statistics have shown the proportion of under 35 year olds working in agriculture had risen to 24 per cent, 30 per cent of which were women.<br /><br />The Bureau’s Executive director Dr Steve Hatfield-Dodds said the paper provided a snapshot of the characteristics and diversity of people that contribute to the industry.<br /><br />“Around 11 per cent of the agricultural workforce is from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, one per cent were Indigenous and 30 per cent were women in 2016,” he said.<br /><br />“More people are also entering the agricultural industry with numbers rising four per cent between 2011 and 2016, with 82 per cent of them living outside of capital cities.<br /><br />“The share of women is up very slightly, accounting for 32 per cent of the workforce.<br /><br />“The contribution that 87,525 farm families make to Australian agriculture is very important.<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.esperanceexpress.com.au/story/5823198/research-shows-young-people-boosting-agricultural-workforce/?cs=12" target="_blank">To read the full article online click through to the Esperance Express website</a></strong>