FARM CITY WEEK BANQUET

Most Americans, both farm and city, are blessed with an abundance of wholesome food and healthy living spaces, but not everyone. We can do better. We should. It's in everyone's best interest for our farms and cities to remain strong and viable. Neither farm nor city can exist in isolation. We need each other.

Since 1955, the National Farm-City Council, together with state and local councils and committees, has encouraged building understanding of our interdependence between rural and urban residents. With this years' theme "Farm Animal Care: Myths vs. Facts," Farm-City Week spotlights how American agriculture reaches far beyond the farm or ranch. Across the country, we’re seeing livestock producers facing new challenges. Oftentimes, these come from well-intentioned citizens in urban areas who don’t know what a good job producers are doing to practice caring and ethical animal husbandry. The goal for this year is to help raise this issue and help educate those in cities and towns who are beginning to have an impact on livestock operations through legislation and regulation.

Agriculture, in fact, is an industry that includes a significant number of urban and suburban residents who help process, transport, sell, and distribute the bounty. Person County’s Annual Farm City Week will be celebrated Monday, November 16th - Friday, November 20th.