Article: Woman farmer digs in to fight for post on the male-dominated NFU

A WOMAN to lead Britain's farmers? Not impossible, and perhaps sooner than you think. Britain's best-known female farmer, Marie Sykes, is trying to break into the overwhelmingly male-dominated upper ranks of the National Farmers' Union.

The Norfolk arable farmer, who sits on a batch of Government quangos and writes columns for a sheaf of agricultural magazines besides looking after 500 acres of wheat, barley and sugar beet with her husband, Chris, is standing for the post of NFU deputy president in elections next month.

She says she wants the NFU to modernise and adapt to a world in which government and EU subsidies of the past 30 years will no longer be a guarantee of farmers' income. ...

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