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As New Year’s Day approaches, hopefully you are facing a slow-down in your typical hectic work schedule on the farm.  There’s not as much work to do with your crops; you’re probably between breeding and calving/lambing seasons; and, okay, you dairy farmers just keep on keeping on.  Bless all of you for providing the rest of us with food, fiber, energy, and entertainment!

While there’s no argument that you deserve a break this time of year, I would like to give you a few pieces of advice that will make your life easier (and hopefully better) in the upcoming year:

Role models.  We all have them.  People we look up to, admire, imitate.  In honor of National Inspirational Role Model Month, the Knowledge Center team wanted to share with you about their role models in the agriculture industry...

“In no other country do so few people produce so much food, to feed so many, at such reasonable prices.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
President Eisenhower was President more than 50 years ago…and yet these words still ring true today, perhaps even more than they did then.  In 1900, 38% of the United States wad directly employed in agriculture, and today, it is less than 2%.  And still, each U.S. farmer producers enough food and fiber for 165 people both in the U.S. and abroad, and do so with few inputs than they did even 30 years ago.