The Ransom Aldrich Administration was the fourth in the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation’s history. Aldrich is remembered for his dedication to pursuing issues to allow small farms to thrive.

The Benton County farmer was known to have a zeal to see rural Mississippi progress, encouraging farm-to-market road improvements, community hospitals through the Hill-Burton Act, electricity to rural homes and the creation of Farm Bureau insurance services.

Aldrich also visited the Netherlands on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation, fact finding on a nitrogen fertilizer facility Dutch farmers used. That mission would eventually turn into the Mississippi Chemical Corporation.

Inheriting a membership of less than 3,000 members in 1937, Aldrich increased the member rolls to a peak of 46,000.

Aldrich also worked hard to produce greater opportunities for Mississippi youth, promoting 4-H, FFA and better education in grade schools and colleges.