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2025 AFBF YF&R Competitive Events Sponsors

2024 Achievement Award Winners Drake & Nicole Yon

We are pleased to announce an exciting competitive event awards package from our sponsors for the 2025 AFBF YF&R national competitions. Thank you to our generous returning sponsors of Ford, Case IH, AmericanAg® and Stanley Black & Decker. 

The YF&R program helps young members shape their future and American agriculture...

Hurricane Helene at Yon Family Farms

Lydia Yon
Yon Family Farms Sign

Our family wanted to take a moment to share how Hurricane Helene has impacted our farm and community in Ridge Spring, South Carolina. Yon Family Farms was established in 1996 when we moved to Ridge Spring – our primary products are Angus cattle, small grains, corn, sorghum, hay, pecans, and timber. We also operate a...

Mariculture: Farming in the Sea

Stephanie Sox
Bulls Bay Seafood sign

Farming is a labor of love, whether you plant your seeds in the ocean or in the soil.

It’s one of those places that you can’t get to from here; so many great places in South Carolina are like that. Situated off Highway 17, just north of Mount Pleasant sits this sleepy fishing town. The town lines are drawn by borders of...

A Farewell to Arms, A Welcome to Farms

Tom Poland

Note: Since this story was published, the Rutters have relocated to Townville, SC

Poster

A classic World War II poster brings to mind Norman Rockwell’s America. A man and woman tend a garden. A boy in coveralls holds a wooden basket overflowing with corn, tomatoes, onions and lettuce. The headline? PLANT A VICTORY GARDEN...

Gone Hog Wild... or Hogs Gone Wild and Deer too!

Stephanie Sox
Wild hogs
One mid-April morning, Rachael Sharp and her father Don were out checking their recently planted cornfields. “I noticed something looked a little off,” Rachael recalls. “We went on around the curve of the road and the damage was just incredible.”

The Egg's Road to Your Table

Tom Poland
eggs

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The Egg’s Road to Your Table: A Journey that Makes Life Healthy and Delicious

The incredible, edible egg it’s been called. We can thank egg farmers and table egg producers for providing this delectable miracle.

Plastic easter eggs with carton

My first experience with an incredible egg farmer goes back a ways. The farmer was my grandmother. In summer...

During National Beef Month, support S.C. cattle producers

State Representative Randy Ligon
Cattlemen

With Memorial Day in sight, South Carolinians are gearing up for another summer full of family cookouts —after all, nothing quite says summer like the smell of hamburgers and steaks cooking on the grill. That’s what makes May the perfect time to celebrate National Beef Month and reflect on the importance of a strong...

Build a Better Burger

Stephanie Sox
Large hamburger

Build a better burger from farms right here in the Palmetto State.

Nothing says summer like a backyard cookout. And the menu? Burgers piled high with your favorite toppings. Meet some South Carolina farmers who grow everything you need to build the perfect burger that will have guests at your next outdoor gathering...

Cows and Climate Change

Picture of the globe with the caption cows and a climate change
Explore statistics and other information regarding the impact of cows and cattle production on climate change.