by MFBF Staff | Dec 9, 2022 | Centennial Celebration, News
For anyone who loves sweet corn, this should be music to your ears…it sure is for the Garner family in Adams County. This is their first go at sweet corn in their operation of 5,500 acres of corn, soybeans and cattle. Logan Garner, the eldest Garner child, gives her... by MFBF Staff | Dec 8, 2022 | Centennial Celebration, News
Jana Everett, the MFBF 2022 Teacher of the Year Jana Everett works as an elementary school teacher at Henderson Ward Steward Elementary in Starkville. Everett was selected due to her efforts to engage her second grade students while integrating agriculture into the... by MFBF Staff | Dec 8, 2022 | Centennial Celebration, News
The MFBF 2022 FFA Advisor of the Year, Mary Helen Lett, never lets her students just stand and watch. She sets the example then lets them take over. “She just installs confidence in her kids all the time,” said Grace Tutor, one of Lett’s students. “I know it sounds... by MFBF Staff | Dec 8, 2022 | Centennial Celebration, News
For Lowndes County Extension Agent Reid Nevins, education and agriculture go hand-in-hand. Growing up on a hog farm, Nevins learned at an early age the ups and downs of farming. He takes all these life lessons with him in his own operation and in Extension. “I just... by MFBF Staff | Dec 8, 2022 | Centennial Celebration, News
Not exactly home on the range, but for Mississippi State Extension’s Lakan Guelker, home on the White Sand Experiment Station in the next best thing. She’s always loved livestock, specifically cattle. Even growing up, she knew she’d one day be a veterinarian. That was... by MFBF Staff | Dec 7, 2022 | Centennial Celebration, News
Stone County’s JB Brown can’t help but smile. This is what is loves to do, and on this day, the green grass and blue skies make it that much more enjoyable. His ancestors have farmed this land for generations and Brown has carried on the family business. “We floated...