Members of the Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts have been holding their 76th Annual meeting in Franklin this week.

The Tennessee Young Leaders Conference was held recently in Franklin where the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers and Ranchers co-sponsored the event with the Tennessee Council of Cooperatives.

Its national FFA Week and the more than 14,000 members in Tennessee will be taking time out to celebrate this all important youth organization and helping to educate others on why the FFA is making a difference for all.

Its still February but that doesn’t mean farmers aren’t thinking a lot about planting season that will begin within the next month or so.

We’ve been hearing about the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) for about a year now, and it continues to be a concern.

The Tennessee Corn Promotion Board has collected $900,000 from the corn checkoff so farm since March of 2019.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was on the farm of Tennessee Ag Commissioner Charlie Hatcher recently to announce the investment of $9 million for four, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects.

Tennessee’s Commissioner of Tourist Development, Mark Ezell, appeared recently before the State Senate’s Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources committee to discuss more about their push for rural tourism.

Ag Commissioner Dr. Charlie Hatcher presented his budget proposal for the Tennessee Department of Agriculture before the Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources committee this week.

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