Rural Lifestyle
#KeepItRural
I gar-on-tee this berry cobbler’s so good, it’ll have ya grinnin’ like a possum eatin’ a sweet tater!
“More freedom, more opportunity, and more access to flexibility and options for rural families to do what they want and have the best education for their children”
“What we’re hoping to do is stop the bleeding... to where that we can then start increasing with our 4-H participants across the state of Kentucky, and our FFA and our livestock.”
“62% of the commercial beekeepers have lost their bees, which would be in the millions— over a million bees”
America is #StillFarming
Regional differences indicate that family ownership is universal, but farm structure and commodity mix determine the extent to which these operations drive agricultural output.
USDA data confirms that U.S. agriculture remains overwhelmingly family-run despite structural shifts in scale and production, according to a new analystis by Farm Flavor.
Farmers display a unique optimism — planting with the expectation that weather, basis, and prices will improve by harvest — asserting that the profession is an identity, not just a job.
Explore 4-H
Reed Marcum started hosting a toy drive in 2015. Since then, he has distributed thousands of toys across his home state of Oklahoma and in Texas and Arkansas. Now serving in the Army, Reed’s family and local 4-H chapter are running the event.
Outdoor Activities & Sports
“A lot of natural instincts involved in this format.”
We will see some familiar duos when the Knighten Industries Heritage Cup Presented by Bass Boat Technologies kicks off on Sunday. Each of the four teams that won Cup trophies in last year’s Team Series will reunite in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
