AFBF President Zippy Duvall says members are working now to develop their national grassroots policy.

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As we gather together to be with friends and family during this holiday season, our Farm Bureau family is doing the same.

When I was elected as Kentucky Farm Bureau’s Second Vice President three years ago, I did not view it just as becoming the first woman to serve in that capacity. I viewed it as an incredible opportunity to further my involvement in an organization I had been a part of for many years.

It isn’t unusual to find farmland and urban development juxtaposed in cities and communities across the state. In nearly every situation, the farms were in place long before their neighboring urban areas began popping up.

I’ve often heard about the little things in life meaning so much. But, like so many others, I am guilty of taking some of those little things for granted.

The look, smell, and sounds of a blacksmith shop are unmistakable, and very much the same today as they were centuries ago. So it may come as a surprise to see someone as young as Jonathan Pinkston, a student at the University of Kentucky, hammering away on an anvil, creating a multitude of tools in much the same way as blacksmiths have done for generations.  

Just one year ago, if someone had told Alex Miller of the big life changes that were about to come his way, he might not have believed it. At the time, he was in the midst of his senior year of high school, active in his FFA chapter, and busy on the family farm.

Daviess County's Suzanne Cecil White is KFB's Farm Woman of the Year and uses the farm as a classroom.

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