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Women from across Tennessee gathered in Lebanon on Saturday for the 75th annual Tennessee Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Conference.
Thomas Capps: Farm Bureau Women Meet in Lebanon. Hello and welcome to Tennessee Home and Farm Radio, I’m Thomas Capps.
Lou Nave: Farm women are such an important part of being advocates and educators for agriculture.
Thomas Capps: Women from across Tennessee gathered in Lebanon on Saturday for the 75th annual Tennessee Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Conference. Lou Nave of Cannon County says in 75 years the mission of Farm Bureau Women hasn’t changed.
Lou Nave: For 75 years we’ve been a recognized organization, working to promote and advocate and educate about agriculture and the importance of agriculture.
Brenda Baker: This is our 75th annual women’s leadership meeting and can’t be more pleased with the crowd.
Thomas Capps: That is Tennessee Farm Bureau Women’s State Committee Chair Brenda Baker of Obion County. She says their goal this year was to focus on health.
Brenda Baker: The last few years with COVID, with everything that has been happening, we just felt like that we needed to focus on what makes us healthy. What makes our families healthy. What makes Farm Bureau healthy and what keeps our farms healthy.
Thomas Capps: Bedford County native Connie Crafton has been coming to these women’s leadership meetings for decades, and says she always takes something away from them.
Connie Crafton: We are always excited to come. We learn new things about agriculture, about farming, about what other women are doing. And it’s just always something that we can take back to our club, and maybe some ideas that we can use in programs and things that we want to do at home.
Thomas Capps: Reminding everyone of women’s important role in agriculture and helping ensure consumers continue to learn about the most important industry that feeds them.
Lou Nave: We must still tell our story, our personal story about what we do on our farm, feeding our animals, raising our crops. We need people to know how real that is to us. And it’s not just a story, it’s not just accurate facts and figures. It is our lives, our livelihoods and our culture.
Thomas Capps: For Tennessee Home & Farm Radio, I’m Thomas Capps. Thanks for listening and have a great day.
