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VikingNews UK 03 2017
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16 vikingnews | december 2017 w e met one of these power- ful women in dairy cattle
breeding
, anuriikka
lallukka
, who manages a herd of 70 cows, 80% vikingred and 20% vi- kingholstein and a few vikingjer- seys, together with her husband markku. ?when i was six years old, i an- nounced to my family that i would be an agronomist when i grow up,?
lallukka
says with a big smile on her face. ?i never did, but i did study to become an agrologist. i was never supposed to be running a
farm
either, but here i am,? she adds. her story of becoming a mother of two and running a
farm
with her hus- band starts from an urban setting when she finished school and got her first job on a
farm
. she spotted a young single
farm
er, and the rest is history. it is quite common for women to be in charge of the
breeding
plan in dairy
farm
s in finland, one of the vikinggenetics countries. women have been doing this for decades, and there is no reason for this to change. by johanna vuori, digital marketer, vikinggenetics prosperous
breeding
made by strong women my grandmother, aini rytkönen, told me that if you are good to the animals, they will be good to you too. this is very true and i?ve always acted accordingly anuriikka
lallukka
of
lallukka
farm
in finland. the couple has been together for almost 20 years now. at first, she kept her job as a
breeding
advisor for faba (finnish animal
breeding
as- sociation, the finnish owner of vi- kinggenetics) when she moved to the
farm
. she also worked as a dairy
farm
advisor. they started to build the new barn in 2010 and there was a need for her to work full time on the
farm
. her grandparents had a small
farm
where she spent most of her summers, and that?s why she has al- ways felt herself to be a
farm
girl, even though she grew up in a city. running a
farm
with her family has always been very natural for her. anuriikka
lallukka
telling the story about how she ended up in cattle
breeding
.
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