Kelly Brophey is a junior at the University of Arkansas studying Animal Science. She is an accomplished equestrian, involved student, a member of the I love farmers, they feed my soul movement and agriculture advocate. Kelly sat down and answered a few of my questions about her views on agriculture.
Growing up in Horatio, Brian Walker had no idea where his food came from. “I just took it for granted that chicken nuggets came from McDonalds,” he said. He didn’t know anything about farming either, coming from a non-farming family. Now, Walker and his wife, Elizabeth, raise more than nine million pounds of chicken meat […]
Today is National Agriculture Day, a day to celebrate and recognize agriculture. It’s important to recognize the contributions of not only agriculture, but also the people involved. I think we should be celebrating agriculture and the people of agriculture all year long. The agriculture industry has a wide influence wielded by an even wider variety […]
Longs are state Farm Family of the Year Fourth-generation farmer from Arkansas County earns 2011 honor Heath and Betsy Long of Tichnor (Arkansas County) are the 2011 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year, announced today at a luncheon honoring the county and district Farm Families of the Year. They own Long Planting Company, a […]
How sweet it is! By GreggPatterson,ArkansasFarm Bureau “Honeymooners” TV show comedian and Hollywoodstar Jackie Gleason’s signature line was “How sweet it is.” In the youth slang of today, if something is really good, kids say it’s “sweet.” No matter what generation you’re from, “sweet” is the key word to describe Matthews Ridgeview Farms in […]
Gillam Farms Learn by doing leads to young farm family’s success by Gregg Patterson, Arkansas Farm Bureau Jeremy Gillam’s dad always intended for his eldest son to learn by doing. Part of that process was allowing him to figure things out for himself. “Dad drove me to the farm, let me out of the […]