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The Big Red Barn in Texas is helping teach the next generation about the importance of agriculture!

January 21, 2025 12:38 PM • 
Tammi Arender

Teaching the next generation about agriculture is one of the main missions of the Texas Agriculture Education and Heritage Center in Seguin, Texas.

RFD-TV’s own Tammi Arender got the chance to visit this place, which is also known as the Big Red Barn.

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Tammi was raised on a cotton and soybean farm in Tallulah, Louisiana. In 1981, she became a TV news anchor and reporter at KNOE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana. She is also an anchor/reporter for RFD-TV and Rural Radio Channel 147 on Sirius XM at their Nashville news studio, where Tammi currently resides.

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