Terry Flanagan This is Me

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1. 1. Press Enterprise, Inc

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   Published on: 1/27/2004   Last Visited: 1/28/2004

   Flanagan, a registered nurse, was not raised on a farm. She has worked at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and at Lutheran Social Services in Philadelphia as a geriatric nurse. She also had a job in the printing industry.
   
   While living in Mount Gretna, she bought two sheep to keep the weeds down on her property, added more sheep, then bought llamas. In 1990, she moved to a former dairy farm that had been idle for about 30 years.
   
   Flanagan said many people don't understand farmers.
   
   "Some have a romantic image of farming and think of us as going out with a basket to collect eggs," she said. "They don't think about going outside in the winter when it's below zero and thawing out frozen pipes. Other people think farmers are nice, but not bright. Farmers have to be savvy about everything from commodities to the world economy."
   
   Flanagan, who got married last summer, grows crops and raises Targhee, Suffolk and Border Leicester sheep and some llamas.

2. 2. AP Wire | 01/18/2004 | Number of women-operated farms increasing, despite farming's decline

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   Published on: 1/18/2004   Last Visited: 1/18/2004

   Flanagan, a registered nurse, was not raised on a farm. She has worked at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and at Lutheran Social Services in Philadelphia as a geriatric nurse. She also had a job in the printing industry.
   
   While living in Mount Gretna, she bought two sheep to keep the weeds down on her property, added more sheep, then bought llamas. In 1990, she moved to a former dairy farm that had been idle for about 30 years.
   
   Flanagan said many people don't understand farmers.
   
   "Some have a romantic image of farming and think of us as going out with a basket to collect eggs," she said. "They don't think about going outside in the winter when it's below zero and thawing out frozen pipes. Other people think farmers are nice, but not bright. Farmers have to be savvy about everything from commodities to the world economy."
   
   Flanagan, who got married last summer, grows crops and raises Targhee, Suffolk and Border Leicester sheep and some llamas.
   
   "I've learned a lot over the years," she said, "especially about starting small and building up. In the 1980s and early 1990s, llamas were more of a novelty. Then, they became the pet of choice and market prices went down. So lambs and wool became our niche."
   
   Flanagan said she and her husband sell their lambs to individuals and through commercial livestock sales.

3. 3. NEPA News

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   Published on: 1/1/2004   Last Visited: 1/18/2004

   Flanagan, a registered nurse, was not raised on a farm. She has worked at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and at Lutheran Social Services in Philadelphia as a geriatric nurse. She also had a job in the printing industry.
   
   While living in Mount Gretna, she bought two sheep to keep the weeds down on her property, added more sheep, then bought llamas. In 1990, she moved to a former dairy farm that had been idle for about 30 years.
   
   Flanagan said many people don't understand farmers.
   
   "Some have a romantic image of farming and think of us as going out with a basket to collect eggs," she said. "They don't think about going outside in the winter when it's below zero and thawing out frozen pipes. Other people think farmers are nice, but not bright. Farmers have to be savvy about everything from commodities to the world economy."
   
   Flanagan, who got married last summer, grows crops and raises Targhee, Suffolk and Border Leicester sheep and some llamas.
   
   "I've learned a lot over the years," she said, "especially about starting small and building up. In the 1980s and early 1990s, llamas were more of a novelty. Then, they became the pet of choice and market prices went down. So lambs and wool became our niche."
   
   Flanagan said she and her husband sell their lambs to individuals and through commercial livestock sales.