Source: SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 4/25/22


Though the United States granted women legal equality for property rights decades ago, women are still not not inheriting farmland as often as their male relatives.  “It is still not women who end up as owners or managers of the family farm,” wrote rural legal scholar Hannah Haksgaard of the University of South Dakota. “Rather it is their brothers or husbands who end up in control of the land.” 

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