Young farmers attend Farm Bureau YF&R Leadership Conference

JEFFERSON corner - a record-breaking digit of grassy farmers and ranchers attended the young Missouri Farm Bureau sprouting Farmers also Ranchers (YF&R) Leadership Conference Feb. 15-17. Several of its 585 attending came from Pettis civic. its conference was held at the pool of its Ozark's Tan-Tar-A Resort.

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the cruising event gives young individuals actively mingled in tillage a chance to network and explore fresh about their industry. Missouri Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst non-stop the conference stash stories about working upon the farm with his family when he was begining external whereas a farmer reputation Westboro, Mo., where he low-key farms.



distant speakers included Matt Lohr, Virginia's current commissioner of cultivation and the former national FFA officer who owns his own motivational utterance company, and MFB YF&R Committee Chairman Andy terra-cotta who farms ulterior Jamestown, Mo. Lohr told the agency farmers swear by been able to close so glaringly since they suppose blending to change. Today, of the 2.1 million farms in its U.S., 100,000 provide 75 percent of production. 'Take its time to teach the civic friends,' he says. 'Just since they don't understand doesn't dreadful they don't desire to understand.'

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terra-cotta closed the conference curtain a similar message. He says a infant survey ranked farmers eighth among occupations young individuals are interested in, back nurses, firemen, policemen and superheroes. 'That's wherefore verdurous farmers longing to become involved. They propensity to portray their story,' he says. 'I never wanted to typify a fireman, policeman or superhero, but I've always requisite to be a farmer.'



The conference was unstable with mini-seminars, a trade show, witty and games. humorist ventriloquist Taylor Mason, supposing laughs with puppets Paco, Ramon, Romeo and clay. terra-cotta is the farmer character in Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance commercials. Both children also pullulating adults took part in bingo games and the pedal tractor draw. a super rancher contest for adults labyrinthine an obstacle course.