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  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A portrait of ourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn walks around her semi rig iat her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought the rig to haul her horses and tariler which she rents for rides. When asked how she learned to drive the semi, she said, "Like everything else, I taught myself." ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn works on her combine while her two retreivers, Champ (left) and Millie look outside at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn climbs in her combine which she had moved out of the shed. Heavy rain and storms over the past week stopped her from finishing her summer planting. Even though the weather was clearing up, the land was still too wet to plant. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women. Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn weedeats around the guest house at her farm, Dunn's Landing. The guest house was the home Dunn grew up in since age three...She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Baldwin, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (right) talks with a friend at the Baldwin Feed Company where she was picking up feed for her chickens. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women. Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Baldwin, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (right) checks some of her cattle that she just transported back to her uncle Raymond Dunn's (rear) farm in Baldwin. The cattle escaped earlier in the week during the heavy storms and she was forced to move them into a pen next to her house for the week. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Baldwin, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (right) checks some of her cattle that she just transported back to her uncle Raymond Dunn's (rear) farm in Baldwin. The cattle escaped earlier in the week during the heavy storms and she was forced to move them into a pen next to her house for the week. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Millie, one of the two retreivers of fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn chases sparrows in one of the hay fieilds at her farm, Dunn's Landing...Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (right) talks with friend Delbert Baithaupt after loading some of her cattle to transport back to a pasture on her uncle's land in Baldwin. The cattle escaped earlier in the week during the heavy storms and she was forced to move them into a pen next to her house for the week. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Millie, one of the two retreivers of fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn looks out from her room in the old milk barn at her farm, Dunn's Landing...Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn makes a call after breakfast in the kitchen of her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn begins her day every morning in her hottub at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She says the tub helps her manage her arthritis and warm up her muscles befre she begins her day. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn begins her day every morning in her hottub at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She says the tub helps her manage her arthritis and warm up her muscles befre she begins her day. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A reflection of Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn in the bumper of a semi she owns at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She says, that is the only chome on this farm. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn shows photos of her parents (second photo from right) and paternal grandparents (far right) at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn proudly wears a John Deere tshirt while working on her Deere combine at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She still owns pieces of Deere equipment owned by her grandfather and father. Adding, 'I bleed green.'..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (left)works on her combine at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn talks with nephew Anthony Dunn at her farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn, who has no children, says that Anthony is a born farmer and has taken him under her wing to teach him about the farm. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A view of a John Deere tractor model and flowers at the home of Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn. The house Dunn lives in was orginally purchased in 1903 by her grandmother. In 1993, she bought her great grandparents homestead from her father, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (right) talks with Lloyd McClure of McClure Backhoe & Excavating about installing a water tank for her cattle at her farm, Dunn's Landing...Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn in her weight room at her farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn says she uses the workout room each morning after breakfast - though primarily in the winter months - to stay fit. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn shows photos of her parents (second photo from right) and paternal grandparents (far right) at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn's retreiver, Millie watches the donkeys and cows pasture at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A view of a DTN monitor - a real time satelite feed used by farmers to monitor agriculture, weather, energy, and financial services - at the home of Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn. Dunn was monitoring the weather to check for any tornadoes in the area. ..The house Dunn lives in was orginally purchased in 1903 by her grandmother. In 1993, she bought her great grandparents homestead from her father, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (right) looks at her fruit orchard with friiend Kirsten Henzlik at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - One of fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn's two retrievers, Champ, walks through the orchard where a wedding will be performed at Dunn's farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn has expanded her farm to include agribusiness - using the farm for weddings, school tours, wagon rides, etc... - as a means to bring in extra income. She says diversity if the key to staying in business these days. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn looks out from the barn her grandfather built at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn's Percheron draft horses at her farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn owns two black and two white of the breed which she uses for rides and weddings for her replica stagecoach and several wagons. Dunn has expanded her farm to include agribusiness - using the farm for weddings, school tours, wagon rides, etc... - as a means to bring in extra income. She says diversity if the key to staying in business these days. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn rides with nephew Anthony Dunn to bring in her Percheron draft horses at her farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn, who has no children, says that Anthony is a born farmer and has taken him under her wing to teach him about the farm. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn drives her wedding carriage with Percheron draft horses to bring the bride to the wedding ceremony at her farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn has expanded her farm to include agribusiness - using the farm for weddings, school tours, wagon rides, etc... - as a means to bring in extra income. She says diversity if the key to staying in business these days. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A group family and friends gather before the wedding ceremonry at Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn's farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn has expanded her farm to include agribusiness - using the farm for weddings, school tours, wagon rides, etc... - as a means to bring in extra income. She says diversity if the key to staying in business these days. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A wedding party finishes their portraits at Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn's farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn has expanded her farm to include agribusiness - using the farm for weddings, school tours, wagon rides, etc... - as a means to bring in extra income. She says diversity if the key to staying in business these days. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn tends to her garden while her dog Champ chews on a bone at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn tends to her garden with nephew Anthony Dunn at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn feeds hay to her Angus cattle at her farm, Dunn's Landing. The cattle are normally pastured at another property but they escaped this week during the storms and she was forced to house them in a pen on her main farm. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn prepares breakfast at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A view of new feed silos through a torn screen of Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn at her farm, Dunn's Landing. The house Dunn lives in was orginally purchased in 1903 by her grandmother. In 1993, she bought her great grandparents homestead from her father, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn (right) dresses her Percheron draft horses in preparation for a wedding at her farm, Dunn's Landing. Dunn has expanded her farm to include agribusiness - using the farm for weddings, school tours, wagon rides, etc... - as a means to bring in extra income. She says diversity if the key to staying in business these days. ..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A view of Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn's John Deere 4020 tracotr which her fther bought in 1969 at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A bumber sticker of Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn reads, "If you ate a meal today, Thank A Farmer" at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A tiarra sits atop the rear view mirror in the truck of fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn at her farm, Dunn's Landing. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A wall of tools line one of the many tool sheds of fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn at her farm, Dunn's Landing..She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn attaches her horse trailer to her semi rig at her farm, Dunn's Landing. She bought the rig to haul her horses and tariler which she rents for rides. When asked how she learned to drive the semi, she said, "Like everything else, I taught myself." Dunn has expanded her farm to include agribusiness - using the farm for weddings, school tours, wagon rides, etc... - as a means to bring in extra income. She says diversity if the key to staying in business these days. ...Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A view of the guest house where fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn grew up at her farm, Dunn's Landing...She bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Wellsville, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn loads her two retreivers Champ (left) and Millie for a ride into town at her farm, Dunn's Landing...Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Ottawa, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - A view of crop rates at the USDA office in Ottawa. Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn was at the office to pick up seed and show reciepts for a reimbursement program. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Ottawa, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn looks over an indigenous grass chart at the USDA office in Ottawa. She was at the office to pick up seed and show reciepts for a reimbursement program. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Ottawa, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn at the USDA office in Ottawa. She was at the office to pick up seed and show reciepts for a reimbursement program. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

  • Ottawa, Kansas, May 28, 2011 - Fourth generation family farmer Robin Dunn at the USDA office in Ottawa. She was at the office to pick up seed and show reciepts for a reimbursement program. ..Dunn bought her great grandparents homestead from her father in 1993, and today grows soybeans, corn, sorghum and hay, and maintains a small herd of Black Angus cattle and eight horses which she uses to for wagon and stage coach rides. According to the most recent Department of Agriculture data, there are more than 306,000 farms run primarily by women in 2007, representing about 14 percent out of the 3.3 million American farms. That's up from 237,819 or 11 percent in 2002, and a big increase from the 1980s when about five percent of U.S. farms were operated by women.Dunn has branched out from her farming business, using her century-old dairy barn to host 25 to 30 weddings and other events a year. She also attracts tourists for farm tours and carriage rides, and holds sessions with school children to teach them about faming.

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