by Alex Lowery | Nov 24, 2019 | News
Advocating for agriculture is important, especially when it comes to sharing the industry’s message with elected officials and federal agencies. That is why more than 140 Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation members and staff recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to...
by Alex Lowery | Nov 8, 2019 | News
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation recently hosted American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall and United States Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Greg Ibach for several meetings. While in Mississippi, Duvall and Ibach participated in a Mississippi...
by MFBF Staff | Oct 31, 2019 | News
Sarah Byrd of Oktibbeha County recently won the 2019 Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers & Ranchers Collegiate Discussion Meet hosted at Mississippi State University. Byrd, a Mississippi State University agronomy major, won a $2,000 scholarship, a...
by Alex Lowery | Oct 21, 2019 | News
More than 36 percent of farmers in the United States are women, according to the United States Department of Agriculture’s 2017 Census of Agriculture, making it ever more important for women in the agriculture industry to learn to lead. With this statistic in mind,...
by Alex Lowery | Oct 15, 2019 | News
Members of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation State Board of Directors recently traveled to Louisiana to spend time learning about agriculture practices different from their own and to fellowship. “It’s important for our board to gather and learn about other...
by Jon Kalahar | Oct 7, 2019 | News
Science, math teachers and everyone in between who teach students from first grade to high school know adding fun activities to their curriculum proves to be the perfect formula to increase knowledge of agriculture in the classroom across Mississippi. Led by the State...
