The series 'Farmers' is an exploration of contemporary rural identity in Ireland, specifically it examines the role of women in farming and their invisibility within the family farm. Despite the level of input a woman (usually a wife) put in on a farm she would more often be classified as ‘farmer’s wife’ instead of ‘farmer’.
Some of these women farm with their husbands, others farm with a daughter or a son and some farm on their own. The point is not how much work an individual woman may contribute to an individual farm but that they do contribute (on a national level) to the farming labour force and that their work, no matter how many or few hours should be recognised as farm work, and the women themselves as farmers.