Young Farmer and Rancher Update
Susan Wilkins, YF&R Vice-chair
I love cattle-selling day.
Excitement is always in the air
when those huge tractor trailers
pull up the drive and we run a
load of calves on to be shipped
out west. Where will they end
up? Will they go somewhere
fairly close like Illinois or Iowa
or further west to Oklahoma or maybe Colorado?
How many people across the United States (and the
world!) will have the opportunity
to eat a hamburger or steak that
originated from my family’s
farm here in the mountains?
There are about two minutes to
enjoy the feeling of satisfaction
of another successful calf crop
before everyone has to go back
to work so there’s a crop for next
year too. Feeding our world is
a big job. Stressful, demanding,
and exhausting; but also
incredibly exciting.
allow farmers an opportunity to share part of their
bounty with those less fortunate. Over 37 million
Americans receive food through the Feeding America
Network each year.
Over the past year and a half, I have been fortunate
to have had two opportunities to work on service
projects with “Harvest for All.” Last Nov