farmerette

noun, a woman or girl who farms land. Also spec.: a member of the Women’s Land Army in the First and Second World Wars (“farmerette, n.” OED)

“During the Second World War, there used to be a lot of training over here, wasn’t there?”
“That’s right. I was a farmerette, and I was raking hay with Nelly and Doll, the horses, on a rake. And the British pilots used to dive at us in the fields. And the windrows of hay would be- the horses would kind of run away, and it took me a while to get them under control. I was a real farmer when I was young. My father always said I should have been the boy of the family.”