by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Centennial Celebration|News
In 1972, an up-and-coming rancher heard Hugh Arant, Sr. talk about agriculture in Mississippi and the special role Farm Bureau members played as the voice of agriculture. It was in that moment David Waide knew his life would take an interesting path. “He was the one...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Centennial Celebration|News
The seventh president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, Don Waller, greets visitors at the door of his Lafayette County home, dressed sharply. Waller harvested his last crop in 2014 at the age of 83. Today, at 92, he still operates the Waller Funeral Home in...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Centennial Celebration|News
If only the Arant family’s acres of corn, soybeans and rice could talk. Oh, the stories they could tell! They could share of a family not only building their own legacy in Leflore County, but of one who helped build the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation into the...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Centennial Celebration|News
Noxubee County’s Boswell Stevens was elected the fifth president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation by a special membership convention in July 1950. Stevens dropped out of Mississippi A&M College to fight overseas in World War I before returning to work on...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Centennial Celebration|News
Looking across the rolling hills of Southern Cross Farm on the Webster and Choctaw county line, it’s easy to see why Dr. Gary Jackson, the 2022 Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Ag Ambassador Award recipient, and his family call this land home. You could reflect for...
