Achievements & Lifestyles

July/August 2010 • Category: Achievements & Lifestyles • Print This Page Print This Page
ASHE COUNTY Farm Bureau was recognized recently by Ashe County’s commissioners at an annual volunteer recognition program. (From left) Ashe County Farm Bureau President Don Tucker, Vice President Bobby Absher and Secretary/Treasurer Judy Bare accept awards from Ashe County Commissioners.
AVERY COUNTY Farm Bureau President Keith Huffman hosted fifth-graders, from Mitzi Huffman’s class at Newland Elementary School April 1 at C&K Huffman Greenhouse & Nursery. Huffman taught students about different aspects of how a greenhouse operates. Jerry Moody from Avery County Cooperative Extension taught the students about different types of insects and how they affect plants. Mark Forbes from the Soil & Water Conservation Office gave a demonstration about the effects of erosion.
BLADEN COUNTY Farm Bureau and the Women’s Committee held a “Meet the Candidates” forum March 25 in the gym at Elizabethtown Middle School. More than 40 candidates for national, state and county office spoke to more than 200 voters who attended the forum.
BLADEN COUNTY Farm Bureau Women’s Committee Chair Brenda Brisson filled in for a second-grade teacher at Dublin Elementary School on May 5 and used the opportunity to read an agricultural book. Brisson read From Cow to Ice Cream to the students. She also provided each student with an ice cream sandwich.
CATAWBA COUNTY Farm Bureau recently hosted a candidate’s forum for candidates in U.S. House District 10, county commissioner, sheriff and clerk of court races. About 140 people attended the event, which was rebroadcast on a local government cable channel.
CASWELL COUNTY Farm Bureau Member David Berry Jr., of Yanceyville, and his four-year-old quarter horse mare Zippos Yellowversion competed throughout 2009 to win the Southern Stockhorse Association Open Championship. The Southern Stockhorse Association, located in Conway, S.C., promotes the versatility stockhorse. Events include cutting, reining, working cowhorse and roping. This is the second championship for Berry. He won the North Carolina Ranch Horse Association Open Championship in 2008 aboard Dry Pistol.
FRANKLIN and GRANVILLE COUNTY Farm Bureaus were among the local sponsors of a four-county 4-H Livestock Show and Sale that included 44 youth from Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren counties April 23 at the Southern Livestock Center in Oxford. Some of the winners from Franklin County, which was represented by county President Bennie Ray Gupton, were Anna Dorsey, Leah Dorsey, Micah Dorsey, Silas Dorsey, Colton Steffensen and Tiffany Steffensen.
FRANKLIN COUNTY Farm Bureau sponsored the annual Franklin County 4-H Achievement Awards ceremony at Cedar Creek Middle School on April 16. County Board Secretary Alton Foster assisted in recognizing award winners, like the Equus of All Trades 4-H club, which won for outstanding community service project, “Katie Parsons Benefit Horse Show.”
JOHNSTON COUNTY Farm Bureau recently honored Donell Stancil upon his retirement from the Johnston County Farm Bureau Board of Directors after 57 years of service. County President Dennis Durham presented Stancil with a picture during the Annual Meeting on Feb. 25.
PERSON COUNTY Farm Bureau sponsored a Farm Medic class for fire departments, rescue squads and county EMS personnel May 7-9 at the farm of John and Jay Foushee, near Roxboro. The purpose of the class was to train county rescue workers to stabilize farm vehicles and equipment and extricate people from farm vehicles and equipment if necessary. Attendees also learned about the types of injuries they could expect to find in accidents involving farm equipment. About 30 students attended the class.
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY Farm Bureau Women’s Committee donated and served desserts and drinks at Relay for Life’s annual Survivors Banquet May 11 at Morehead High School. More than 375 cancer survivors attended the event. Farm Bureau donated $500 to Relay for Life. On June 10, the Women’s Committee conducted a Family Night. They also held an R. Flake Shaw Scholarship Auction June 19 at the home of County President Darryl Dunagan.
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY Farm Bureau recently contributed an article to the Eden’s Own Journal newspaper’s “Farm Corner” section. The article was a recap of an event in which Ray Styer Farm, of Reidsville, hosted 33 staffers from the Natural Resource Conservation Service for a look at his operation, which is an excellent example of soil health and conservation.
SCOTLAND COUNTY Farm Bureau hosted U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell for a “get acquainted” breakfast recently. Kissell talked about current legislation in Congress and told the group that some people lack an understanding of the importance of farmers.
SURRY COUNTY Farm Bureau recently helped send FFA students to the national convention this year and sponsored the Star Farmer Award for county FFA students. The award winners were Chase Chandler, John Holt and Robby Shelton.
SURRY COUNTY Farm Bureau made a number of contributions to Pilot Mountain Pride—a new county effort to put growers in touch with markets for their produce. The program is seven years in the making, and the idea behind it is to compensate for the loss of tobacco income to the county. Surry County Farm Bureau gave money, bought washing and grading equipment and scales, and contributed to the cost of giant coolers for the facility. Also, during the May 20 open house, Surry County Farm Bureau presented the facility with a refrigerated truck. On May 6, Surry County Young Farmers and Ranchers served breakfast to farmers touring the facilities of MDI, who will purchase produce sold through Pilot Mountain Pride. Fifty-two farms are growing produce to run through the facility to grocery stores and elsewhere.
WAKE COUNTY Farm Bureau Board Members Fred and Shirley Burt provided a cow-milking booth May 15 at the Yates Mill County Park. About 100 visitors of all ages tried their hands at milking the cow and making a “moo mask.” Rudy Rooster books and other Farm Bureau brochures were provided.
WAKE COUNTY Farm Bureau Women’s Committee provided a “cow” for kids to “milk” when students visited Vaughan’s Veggies, which is owned and operated by Wake County Farm Bureau Member R.L. Vaughan. Students were also invited to pick berries, feed chickens and pigs, make “moo masks” and take home Rudy Rooster coloring books during tours of Vaughan’s strawberry and vegetable farm.
WILKES COUNTY Farm Bureau sponsored a meeting about highway laws related to agriculture, which featured troopers from the North Carolina Highway Patrol. About 126 farmers from four counties attended the meeting.
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