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How Diversification Can Help Minority Farmers Thrive: Q&A with Ricky Dollison
How Diversification Can Help Minority Farmers Thrive: Q&A with Ricky Dollison

“As a young person, if you’re not going to be proud of what you do, don’t waste your time," he advises. "Be proud of what you do, and everywhere you go, be excited about it and talk about it.”

Succession Planning
Leaders in Ag: R.G. Lamar, Pecan Farmer and CEO
Leaders in Ag: R.G. Lamar, Pecan Farmer and CEO

What’s the most challenging thing about running a legacy brand? “The biggest challenge is being pigeonholed. Everyone expects us to recreate the past, but the future doesn’t look like what we were," Lamar says.

Clinton Griffiths
Dairy
Walmart Announces Plans to Build $350 Million Milk Processing Plant in Southern Georgia
Walmart Announces Plans to Build $350 Million Milk Processing Plant in Southern Georgia

America’s largest retail store has announced its plans to build a $350 million milk processing plant in Valdosta, Ga.

Taylor Leach
Crop Production
Farmer Welcomes Sesame Street to Promote Agriculture
Farmer Welcomes Sesame Street to Promote Agriculture

When Sesame Street knocked, Casey Cox threw open the door on her Georgia farm and grabbed an opportunity to take U.S. agriculture to a new audience.

Chris Bennett
Crops
Will Disaster Aid Relief Come A Little Too Late for Southern Growers?
Will Disaster Aid Relief Come A Little Too Late for Southern Growers?

Betsy Jibben has the story from East-Central Georgia. She talks with Charles Smith, farmer from Jefferson County, Georgia; and Ashley Arrington, founder of AgriAuthority and with Farmhold Financial.

Betsy Jibben
Beef
Georgia Farm’s Beef Reduces Atmospheric Carbon
Georgia Farm’s Beef Reduces Atmospheric Carbon

White Oak Pastures, a 3,200-acre multigenerational Georgia farm, says it offsets 100% of its grass-fed beef carbon emissions and as much as 85% of the farm’s total carbon emissions.

Greg Henderson
Policy
FAA air traffic control
FAA: Irrigation Pivot Threatens Air Traffic

FAA: Farm equipment radio interference threatens air traffic

Associated Press