by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Centennial Celebration|News
Early in his career, Brad White, the 2022 Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Friend of Ag Award recipient, had the opportunity to connect with some of the greats in Mississippi’s political history. “In 1991, Mr. Ray Laden was good friends with Kirk Fordice,” White...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Centennial Celebration|News
The Knight family has owned their family farm in east Rankin County for nearly 150 years. There are still signs of its original use…dairy cattle. Now, though, the milking barn is long retired and is home to several horses. Former Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation...
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...
