The Land Army:

The Women's Land Army was a British Civilian Organisation that took place in both the First and Second world war. The Women's Land Army took over the agricultural jobs that men had left behind as they went to war. The Women participating were nicknamed Land Girls and were featured heavily in propaganda as they were on the forefront of providing food for the nation as any food that had to be imported was expensive and trade routes were dangerous. The farmers employed local girls to do the jobs that their usual male employees would do, such as harvesting and tending to crops, spraying the fields and maintenance of the farm animals.

The Women's Land Army began in 1939 as the prospect of a Second World War grew more likely. Many of the girls already lived in the countryside but over a third came from industrial cities to help. These women played a huge and vital part in Britain winning the war.
Under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries the Women's Land Army gained an official head, Lady Gertrude Denman.
Land Girls, both voluntary and conscripted worked day and night to provide for Britain. By 1944 it had over 80,000 members until its disbandment on 21st October 1949.