The Rural Voice, 1979-01, Page 12Future Woman Farmer — Dianna Brand, of R.R. 3, Clinton, in
her sear or yera of the ABM program at Centraila College of
Agricultural Technology, in front of the Women In Agriculture
display she helped assemble for the school's recent open house.
Dianna plans to work on her father's dairy farm after graduation.
CCAT display highlights
women in agriculture
Dianna Brand, of R R 3, Clinton, doesn't mind the thoughtof
spending part of her life down on the farm.
Dianna, a dairy farmer's daughter and a senior student in the
Agricultural Business Management (ABM) program at Centralia
College of Agricultural Technology, is one of 23 women in the
program who plan to make agriculture their career.
Ten of these 23 women staged a special exhibit titled Women
In Agriculture at the college's recent open house to point out
women will be playing a more visible role in the agricultural
community in the future.
The theme of the exhibit was while women have been running
much of the financial end of farming for some time and doing
part of the physical work on the farm, it's largely been in their
role as farmers' wives.
Now women are consciously choosing agriculture as a career.
Statistics collected by the Centralia students from the Ontario
College of Agriculture in Guelph state that 75 per cent of all farm
women do all the banking, bookkeeping and keep registration
and breeding records and 84 per cent take part in making major
farm business decisions.
But the women in the ABM program aren't going to have to
wait for marriage to give them a reason for working on the farm.
The ABM program educates them in setting up, operating and
managing a farm from the ground up.
Dianna said much of the course deals with the financial
operation of a farm - how to get the most out of what you have. In
her senior year, Dianna is spending one day a week on a dairy
farm to learn how the farm is managed on a firsthand.basis.
Although Dianna eventually hopes to work as a 4-H
agricultural co-ordinator, she expects she'll work on her father's
dairy farm to gain some practical experience first.
Graduates of Centralia's ABM program go on to careers as
farm owners and operators, farm managers, sales represent-
atives for companies marketing agricultural products, CUSO
staff or they are employed in agricultural research.
When the Centralia girls arranged their display on women in
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