Now, Copello has a farm of her own. It's not big — just an acre. But on it she grows a variety of organic vegetables that help supply everything from lettuce to turnips to area farmer's markets and health food stores. Woman have been 'invisible farmers" but that's changing Farming was once largely a male profession, but that is rapidly changing. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farms at which women were the principal operators grew by 30% between 2002 and 2007. The 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture found that 36% of the nation's farmers are women, and 56% of all farms have at least one woman decision maker. In Volusia County in 2017, 1,130 of the county's 2,661 farmers were women.