Episode 5.7: Colette DePhelps — Female Farmers

Question: When you imagine a farmer, what picture do you have in your head? Meet Colette DePhelps (bit.ly/3WzzXAA), an area extension educator specializing in community food systems for University of Idaho. As part of the Idaho Woman in Ag (bit.ly/3FJxbBN) project, DePhelps is interviewing and surveying Idaho’s female farmers — who earn $1 for every $2.50 earned by male counterparts — and identifying the support they need. Visit our website go.uidaho.edu/thevandaltheory​. Email us at [email protected]. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at uidaho.edu. More U of I Agricultural and Life Sciences Stories Undergrad Research Project Focuses on Nitrous Oxide Emissions (bit.ly/3I9lrvt) Dairy Waste Research (bit.ly/3v4shu7) Global Food Security (bit.ly/3v4UP6T) Music “Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (bit.ly/3f271AU) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/3D7wBMV). “The Family Farm” by Heartland Nights (bit.ly/3jjxNGS) via soundstripe.