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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“This is her hill. I mean this is her hill. Anytime we’re working out in the yard, she’s with us. So if we’re on the tractor, she’s on the tractor with us,” said Britney Bishop, owner of Lucy, the MFBF 2022 Farm Dog of the Year. From tractor rides to watching over her...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation honored outstanding counties from each region during the 2022 MFBF Annual Convention. These counties were selected based on their accomplishments in all program areas of Farm Bureau. Montgomery County Farm Bureau was selected from...