They say misery loves company. For Danny Smithson, a family farmer in #AgriReady Macon County, it’s a social media following as well.  Smithson’s operation is based in La Plata, Missouri and consists of row crops and a few hundred head of cattle.  He began farming after he graduated high school in 1993. He is assisted […]

Caleb Simpson is uniquely passionate about agriculture policy. Caleb spent weekends and summers growing up on his grandparents’ farm in #Agri-Ready Designated Polk County and is a member of the Bolivar FFA Chapter. He is currently serving as a State Vice President for the Missouri FFA Association and is pursuing a degree in agricultural policy […]

Morgan Coday is contributing to the growth of the FFA Organization as the middle school agriculture instructor at the Dallas County R-1 School District in Buffalo in #Agri-Ready Designated Dallas County. She pursued her career in agriculture education after growing up on her family’s farm in the Ozarks where her own FFA Supervised Agriculture Experience […]

Steve Kahrs is proud to be a proprietor of Osage Catfisheries, Inc., an aquaculture agribusiness venture that was born in 1953 as the beginning of his father’s dream. Osage Catfisheries spans the original farm near Osage Beach in #Agri-Ready Camden County and two large farms that utilize the Osage River below the Bagnell Dam. Steve […]

Kylie Epperson is a rural mom to Rhett (8), Reese (6), and Rowan (3), and a a farm wife to her husband, Jordan. The family farms together in #Agri-Ready Designated Audrain County near Vandalia. Kylie embraces her rural roots, realities, and experiences and intentionally reaches out to help other rural women do the same. Her […]