CSC students attend Young Farmer and Rancher Conference

CSC’s Farm Bureau Club recently attended the Young Farmers and Ranchers Conference in Kearney. 

Also in attendance was Nebraska Farm Bureau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and two other chapters of Farm Bureau, as well as local farmers and ranchers.

Speakers at the conference covered topics from every corner of agriculture including agriculture business, cattle veterinary medicine, agriculture economics and potato and lavender farming 

“It was really cool to learn what other people were doing on their ranches in Nebraska,” Kristin Van Beek, senior of Crawford, president of the Farm Bureau club said. “That you wouldn’t think of doing one guy was raising cows and having shrimp alongside so it was really cool to see how he was using the ecosystem in that area to the best of his ability.”

Van Beek says the club plans on attending the conference annually noting the importance of the conference. She felt that the Farm Bureau club members can learn alot from other ranchers. 

“With the human population growing, agriculture is going to become a huge aspect,” Van Beek said. “It already is huge but it’s going to become more dominant because agriculture produces a lot of our food and with cities expanding we are more than likely to start producing more food on less land.”

Van Beek also mentioned the importance of having people attend confrence like this. 

“I think its really important for people to understand where their food comes from,” Van Beek said. “Yes it comes from the grocery store but where did it come from before that.”

Van Beek mentioned that she learned the most from the cattle vet and agriculture banking.

“The banker that came in talked about how to afford a farm,” Van Beek said.