Young Farmers and Ranchers telling their story

The new advocates

You may have seen the new Summer Synergy tab on my blog. Summer Synergy is a program for youth in agriculture that are involved in showing livestock. This year I am assisting with the marketing contest. The Senior members have been challenged with creating blogs that tell agriculture's story. During the next few months I'll be featuring some of their blogs, and I hope you take the chance to check them out.

Sarah Nixdorff - http://www.downonthefarmnixdorff.blogspot.com/
Sarah family raises Hereford and commercial cattle. She recently wrote a neat post about bringing some of her city friends out to the Ranch, something that my sister and I did often when we were growing up.

Stacey Domolewski http://jocowgirlcountry.blogspot.com/

Stacey is a college student, who grew up on Purebred Angus cattle farm. She talks about her experiences on the farm and has some great recipes on her blog.

Also, if you are participating in Summer Synergy tell me about your blog. And if you are needing some help with installing Google Analytics let me know, and we'll get it sorted it out.

Young Farmers and Ranchers Blogs Part II

Tell your story.

There are lots of areas of agriculture, and although beef cattle are my favorite, I try to learn and be knowledge about all aspects. This month I am going to be featuring some brand new blogs from young agriculture agvocates.

Maryellen Gibson - Farm Kid Forever
Maryellen isn't a cowgirl, and doesn't own a pair of cowboy boots. She's a Shepard. I've been enjoying reading her blog and perspective on sheep and other areas of agriculture. I really enjoyed learning a lot about the sheep industry on my trip last year to Australia.

Farm Girl Forever

Dakota Wilson - Beef Undressed

I love one of Dakota's first posts about Artificial Insemination. Yes, this is a technology that we use in the cattle industry. She explains more about how it is done, and why on her blog Beef Undressed.  

A picture of Dakota's dad A.I.ing one of their Angus cows.

Rosie Templeton - Absolutely Agriculture

A passionate advocate Rosie blogs on a variety of topics. She has exposed me to some new way to connect with consumers, and how consumers could connect with me, like the Meet Your Farmer program.

One of the newborn Hereford calves on Rosie's farm.

Young Farmers and Ranchers Blogs Part III

Time to feature some more of the Summer Synergy #agblogs

Starting a blog can be a little intimidating, but I have been very impressed by the way these young people are jumped right into the advocacy waters on this project. Here are a couple more blogs for you to check out. And to learn more about the program or starting your own blog check out my tabs above.

Emily Puch - Life of a Farm Girl 
I really liked Emily's most recent posts, about the signs of spring in Alberta. Sometimes I forget that Canada is just getting into Spring, since there has been green grass in the Midwest for such a long time already. Plus, how can you resist new kittens...

From Life of a Farm Girl

Katie Dietrich - It ain't always pretty, but it is real

I really like this post of Katie's that talks about both her 4-H and dancing careers coming to an end. I took was really active in both of these activities, and it reminded me of myself. Yes, there are pictures somewhere of me feeding my show cattle with pink curlers in my hair because after chores we had to rush off to a dance competition. 

Katie in her dance attire

Sneak Peak Champion of Champions

Cows, kids and video. 

I want to give you a sneak peak of a project I got to help work on. The TV show is called Champion of Champions and will be airing tonight (August 11) on RFD-TV, 8 PM Eastern. I really enjoy shooting and editing video, and this time I also did a couple voice overs. Usually I cringe when I hear my voice in videos, but I think it turned out pretty well.



The show will be more than just showring videos. It also has segments on the non-cattle events and profiles of some of the Junior Angus members. This is a great way to get a glimpse into who are the young people in agriculture helping raise our food.

More segments can be found on angus.org starting tomorrow or by searching Champion of Champions on YouTube.