Confident, communication skills, the cool factor, clarity, conversation and conviction are the 6 Cs Michele suggest for teenagers to keep in mind as they find their voice to tell their farm and ranch story. Ideas included from 4-H and FFA members, high schoolers, parents and college students.
What does a site filled with wedding dresses, recipes and shoes have to do with farmers? Pinterest is ripe with opportunity for agriculture to go beyond choir & connect on a human level.
What forces that will drive disruptive change in our world over the next decade? How can agriculture adapt and act with tomorrow’s logic? Michele shares what she learned from a futurist, relating the five to farming and food choices. What forces that will drive disruptive change in our world over the next decade? Michele shares what she learned from a futurist and how they might farming and food choices. How can agriculture adapt and act with tomorrow’s logic?
Learn from a stubborn, business-minded dairy farmer has found the value of opening his barn doors, talking about animal care and why it matters to agriculture. In his words, open your mind and open your doors, it will pay off.
Big picture before self, the long view, execution, humilty, guts enough to accept change and ears. Michele asks if agriculture has true thought leadership and offers a few suggestions for farmers, ranchers and agricultural advocates to lead the conversation rather than react to it.
Center pivots of information are directed right at you; we consume about 168 million DVDs worth of information on the internet each day. Are you ducking, drinking or drowning? Info overload is very real; Michele shares social statistics that may surprise you and asks – if social media is dead, what has been birthed in its place?
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