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MFBF President Mike McCormick Motivates Members with Annual Address
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation President Mike McCormick took the stage during the closing general session of the 2022 Annual Convention on Sunday, December 4. In his annual address, McCormick recapped the last 100 years of Farm Bureau and encouraged members to...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation 2022 Outstanding County Awards
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...
MFBF 2022 Farm Dog of the Year Award Recipient: Lucy Bishop
“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...
MFBF 2022 Farm Woman of the Year Award Recipient: Tange James
With her husband, Dan, Tange James, the 2022 Farm Woman of the Year, grows produce, on their land halfway between Calhoun City and Grenada. It’s been in the family for nearly 60 years. To say Tange pictured herself here growing up would be an understatement. Tange:...
MFBF 2022 YF&R Discussion Meet Award Recipient: Jay Slater
Jay Slater lives and works in Alcorn County, but it’s not unusual to find him back on his home place every chance he gets. “This is where I grew up. It’s called Slater Flats,” he said. “Four generations have lived here, have lived in this house. You know, cattle...
MFBF 2022 YF&R Excellence in Agriculture Award Recipient: Alex Deason
A typical day for the 2022 Young Farmers & Ranchers Excellence in Agriculture winner, Alex Deason, sees him moving from field to field…putting in moisture censors here, consulting with farmers on crops there. All to find that goal of getting the best out of each...
MFBF 2022 YF&R Achievement Award Recipients: Dane & Caroline Garner
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...
MFBF 2022 Teacher of the Year Award Recipient: Jana Everett
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...
MFBF 2022 FFA Advisor of the Year Award Recipient: Mary Helen Lett
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...
MFBF 2022 Extension Education Award Recipient: Reid Nevins
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...
MFBF 2022 Agricultural Research Award Recipient: Lakan Guelker
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...
MFBF 2022 Excellence in Leadership Award Recipient: J.B. Brown
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...