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Young Farmers and Ranchers Scholarship Program Open for 2024 with 11 Competitive Scholarship Opportunities
The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee is excited to offer eleven competitive scholarships for college agriculture students for the 2024-2025 academic year. This year, the scholarship deadline has been moved to May 1, 2024, and...
Make Plans to Attend the 2024 Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Conference
The 2024 Mississippi Farm Bureau® Federation Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Leadership Conference will be held February 16-18, 2024, at The Peabody Hotel in Memphis. We cordially invite all Mississippi young farmers and ranchers and their spouses to attend...
AFBF Urges a Freeze to Current H-2A wage Rates in Letter to Senate, House Leadership
Labor.AFBF H2A letter to Congress.AFBFLTR.12.15.23.FINAL As the largest general farm organization in the United States, we humbly urge immediate congressional action to provide short-term wage relief to our hardworking farm families. Specifically, the American Farm...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Elects New Board during 2023 State Convention
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation marked the end of 2023 by gather membership in central Mississippi for the organization’s 101st state convention December 2nd-4th. Delegates, representing 178,000 member families, elected MFBF’s 2024 Board of Directors. MFBF...
2023 MFBF Distinguished Service Award Recognizes life of Dr. Elton “Mac” Huddleston
August 27th, Mississippi lost a hero, a patriot, a statesman, a steward. Mac Huddleston grew up on his grandparents’ farm in Holmes County, attended Mississippi State University and joined the ROTC to pay for college. He graduated with a degree in accounting. A month...
Covington County’s Voice of Agriculture, V.O. Campbell Named 2023 MFBF Excellence in Leadership Award winner
It was never in Covington County’s V.O. Campbell’s nature not to take a step forward, to lead when just a few would or only one would. From his own farm to his county to his state, Campbell wanted to do what was right. “When you talking farmers and V.O., this was his...
Farm Credit System Veteran, Sells Newman Named 2023 MFBF Ag Ambassador
Sells Newman recently retired after over 40 years working in the Farm Credit system. Anyone who knows Sells, knows he cares about farmers, farms and Mississippi agriculture. He learned the importance of agriculture growing up on his family’s farm near Crystal Springs....
Lowndes County Senator, Chuck Younger Named 2023 MFBF Friend of Agriculture
From the field to the side by side to the front yard, Lowndes County Senator Chuck Younger doesn’t slow down for long. There’s cows to feed, land to check and four grandchildren who demand his attention. Not that Younger minds at all. Now, his oldest grandson, three...
Choctaw County Sweet Potato Farmers Named MFBF Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement Award Winners
“I’d rather be proactive than reactive, I mean, and then there’s no growth in the comfort zone. There’s no comfort zone in the growth zone, so I always want to take a step forward, whether it’s a small step or not, but that’s just where we’ve taken our farm, said...
Sunflower County’s Sarah Clark Named MFBF Young Farmers and Ranchers Excellence in Ag Award winner
It’s that time of year on Flat Forty Farms in Sunflower County. That means Sarah Clark will split her day between her chair at the county FSA office and the driver’s seat here. “Sarah works two full‑time jobs. She gets off work, then comes out here, and we run until...
Montgomery County’s Triston Roberts Wins 2023 MFBF Discussion Meet Competition
“I always tell everybody my Ag story is a five-dollar bet. The guy that my mom married bet me five bucks that I wouldn’t take the halter and lead a 2,000 pound bull around, and if it hadn’t been for that five‑dollar bet, I don’t know where I’d be today," said Triston...
West Jones High School Ag Teacher Named 2023 FFA Advisor of the Year
Just another day in Mister Parker’s class at West Jones High School…from the classroom, to the shop…but for his students this typical day they say is leading them to new heights beyond high school. “Just a lot of hands‑on learning and ….allows time for you to be able...