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SCFB Young Farmer Conference Designed to Develop More than 100 young farmers attended the recent South Carolina Farm Bureau (SCFB) Young Farmer & Rancher Leadership Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC. The annual Farm Bureau Federation conference featured workshops on such topics as Ag Futures Marketing, Ag in the Classroom, Evolution of Southeast Grain Markets, and the 2002 SCFB Legislative Agenda. The SCFB Young Farmer & Rancher (YF&R) Program which began in 1972 has played a prominent role in the SC Farm Bureau organization. The first state YF&R Conference was held in Columbia in 1973. The purpose of the YF&R Program is to develop leadership skills among farmers between the ages of 18 and 35 on county, state, and national levels. SCFB YF&R Coordinator Faith Lawrimore commented, “Today’s young farmers are more capable to succeed than the generations before them. They have more knowledge and information at their disposal and have higher degrees of technology at their fingertips.” Lawrimore called the young farmers “the new blood” of Farm Bureau. “Their dedication, knowledge, and interest in agriculture are vital to the future success of farming in our state.” “2002 will be a year when the SC Farm Bureau Federation will call farmers together to work for common causes, to work together to present family run farms as a collective industry, vital to the economic well-being of this state,” Lawrimore added. South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation is a non-profit organization designed to promote the interests of agriculture in the state. There are more than 130,500 family member families statewide, with more than 35,000 of those families directly involved in South Carolina farming.
Persons
interested in supporting the efforts of young farmers may
contact their county Farm Bureau for additional information,
or Faith Lawrimore at SC Farm Bureau Federation at (803)
936-4287. Those attending the conference included:
Aiken
County: Michael
Dubose
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