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FFA, 4-H members and seeing the melting pot of ag

· February 8, 2019

Crystal Carson of Kansas reached out to tell us about her experience as chaperone of two FFA members and a 4-Her (as well as 85-year-old Nana) to Lubbock, Texas, for the National American Agriculture Movement Convention. It was rural kids getting to spend time in a big city at an exciting, diverse convention where they took […]

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The NFL center who discovered a new life on the farm

· February 1, 2019

Jason Brown’s story is one many of us have heard before, but it’s also an amazing one that needs to be told again and again. The star NFL center left football to establish a life for himself on a farm in North Carolina.  An annual multi-million salary was traded in for a chance to be […]

Young woman finds passion, purpose, & innovation in dairy

· January 31, 2019

Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is helping to show how some of its recent women graduates are making a big impact on farming operations and on their communities. One of them, Laura Flory, who was a dairy science major in the class of 2009, helped to implement robotic milkers on her family’s 800-acre dairy, […]

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