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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

During the week of November 18, more than 100 Mississippi farmers and ranchers will travel to Washington to represent Farm Bureau in our nation’s capital. This year, the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation “D.C. Fly-In” will be held November 18-20, 2019. “We are...

Fairs across the country have become an American tradition, right up there with baseball and apple pie. Every year, fairs pop up throughout the small towns and larger urban areas in Mississippi. A’Fair on the Square, the Hernando craft show held each May, grows each...

In 2019, half way around the world is not so far anymore. Mississippi corn and soybean farmers found that out first hand when the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation hosted a 22-member trade delegation from Taiwan for a breakfast meeting in honor of the Asian country...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation recently hosted Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the United States Sidique Wai, Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner Andy Gipson and Mississippi Development Authority Senior International Trade Manager Vicki...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, along with the Alabama Farmers Federation and the Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas Farm Bureaus, recently sent a letter to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue and Under Secretary Greg Ibach commending their efforts to investigate the...

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation’s Women’s Leadership Committee traveled to Jackson to educate and serve during Women’s Day at the Capitol. The committee spent their morning hosting a reception in the Capitol Rotunda for the legislature and their staff. The...