Tennessee Home & Farm Radio

As harvest winds down for soybean farmers across Tennessee, its been extremely difficult to find a profit or even break even.  Drought in many areas have hurt yields, input costs continue to climb and the prices paid to farmers per bushel is down considerably.

The American Farm Bureau Federation Thanksgiving Cost Survey shows the traditional ingredients in a holiday dinner will cost a little less this year. Chad Smith has the details.

From natural disasters to high input costs and low prices for certain commodities, farmers and ranchers are seeing a lot of red on their financial ledgers. Chad Smith has more on how Congress can help.

For Tennessee farmers, it’s been a tough year, maybe not so bad for beef cattle producers, but for basically everyone else, a lot of challenges with the weather, inflation and the markets.

There are hundreds of kids in our communities that go to bed hungry each night with no food to eat. Carolyn Jarnagin of Hamblen County is trying to change that with her organization called Food on Foot, which sends food bags home with kids in need on the weekend. She explains how Food on Foot got started and why it’s her mission to end childhood hunger.

Tennessee State Veterinarian, Samantha Beaty, explains why it’s important to have a plan in place in case of a disease outbreak in livestock, and assures there is one in place in Tennessee.

Thankful for a really good turnout for Tracy and Katie Robinson’s tractor presentation at their farm in Franklin County in honor of them being named the Young Farmers of the Year earlier this year.

This year Grainger County FFA can finally go to Oklahoma as they will be representing the Volunteer State on the national level in land judging. The state 4-H and FFA contest was held recently at the Clyde M. York 4-H Center in Crossville.

The Herbert College of Agriculture hit record enrollment this fall. UTIA Senior Vice Chancellor Keith Carver explains how the programs success paired with great opportunity for students post graduation is driving the growth.

On this Veterans Day we honor those that have served our country in uniform to protect the freedoms that all Americans enjoy.  And there’s no doubt a stronger proportion of our population that join the military came from farm or rural backgrounds.

Farmer Veteran Coalition of Tennessee