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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...
MFBF 2022 Distinguished Service Award Recipient: Neal Huskison
“He’s just, he’s got a heart for farming, always has had one. I think he gets that probably from his dad, and so it’s important to him. And Farm Bureau’s always been important to him for that reason. He wants to do good things for Farm Bureau.” That’s how Berk...
MFBF 2022 Ag Ambassador Award Recipient: Dr. Gary Jackson
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...
MFBF 2022 Friend of Ag Award Recipient: Brad White
Early in his career, Brad White, the 2022 Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Friend of Ag Award recipient, had the opportunity to connect with some of the greats in Mississippi’s political history. “In 1991, Mr. Ray Laden was good friends with Kirk Fordice,” White...
MFBF Elects New Board During 100th Annual Convention
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation celebrated its centennial year with an annual convention from Dec. 2-5. Delegates, representing more than 180,000 member families, elected MFBF’s 2023 Board of Directors at the business session. MFBF President Mike McCormick, of...
A Century of Faith, Family & Farm Bureau: Recapping the 2022 MFBF Annual Convention
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation celebrated 100 years of faith, family and Farm Bureau during its 100th Annual Convention by inviting every facet of the Mississippi agriculture industry to Jackson in December. The iconic event, held at the Mississippi State...
A Labor of Love: McCormick Dedicates his Life to Bettering Farm Bureau and Farming
Farmers are unique. To be one, you must have something special coursing through your veins, as farming is so much more than a job. It’s a lifestyle. As a fifth generation farmer, Mike McCormick knows this well. All he ever wanted to do is be a farmer. Although it may...
Farm Families of Mississippi News: 2022 Campaign Highlights Timber Farmers
The 2022 Farm Families of Mississippi campaign featured Haley Biddy. Haley owns and operates a timber farm in Grenada County. The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation and other Mississippi agriculture industry stakeholders launched Farm Families of Mississippi in 2010...