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In Case You Missed It- Our TV Conversation with Michelle Miller- aka The Farm Babe
Sat, 06 Aug 2016 16:58:25 CDT
In case you missed it- we have the video below from our conversation on Saturday morning with the "Farm Babe"- Michelle Miller- who was a featured speaker at the 2016 Women in Ag Conference held this past Thursday and Friday at the Moore-Norman Technology Center. Miller now lives on an Iowa farm, but the early part of her young adult life was spent in the LA area, where she lived the life of a consumer not understanding anything about how food is produced.
She met her "farmer charming" and has become an Iowa farmer and now spends part of her busy days advocating for farming and ranching. You can learn more about her background and some of the issues she is dialogueing with consumers about by clicking on the PLAY button in the video box below. Below the video box is our earlier story and off camera conversation that Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Farm Director Ron Hays had with Michelle while she was in Oklahoma for the Women in Ag Conference.
By the way- you can check out her Facebook page- that's where she actively engages consumers about farming and ranching- click here for the Farm Babe.
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Here's our earlier webstory talking about the "Farm Babe."
You have probably heard of Michelle Miller, or perhaps you know her by her alter-ego as the Facebook sensation, Farm Babe. Miller's Facebook page, boasting well over 31,000 Likes, has served as her platform for advocating and educating about agriculture. Growing up as an involved 4-H member is Wisconsin, Miller ultimately decided to move away from her rural surroundings and spent the next 12 years in LA and Chicago working in the fashion industry. She admits during her time in the big city, she became swept up in the organic and GMO-Free rhetoric commonly heard today. However, after meeting a fifth-generation farmer from Iowa five years ago and moving to his family farm, Miller became enlightened to the safe and proud practices of American agriculture. She has since become an advocate for agriculture, sharing her experiences on the farm with anyone who will listen.
Farm Director Ron Hays ran into Miller at the Oklahoma Women in Agriculture Conference and asked what she learned being on the farm that changed her perspective on GMOs and animal agriculture health methods.
"There's so many great things going on with GMOs," Miller said, "and it's unfortunate because the science is sound. Scientists and farmers get it but there's so much money and loud things being said on the other side of things that are usually funded by the organic industry."
Miller says that traditional agriculture has and is making great environmentally conscious strides to advance the industry including the growing adoption of no-till practices that reduces erosion and improves soil health and the elimination of harmful insecticides and herbicides by utilizing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, that allow farmers to produce more on less land while conserving resources. She argues that the influence of the organic sector is really pushing production in the opposite direction that its consumer base wants. The crops they choose to use require more pesticides, more herbicides, more resources - which means worse effects on the environment. She says many of the same things are true in animal agriculture as well.
She says when it comes to teaching the public about agriculture, they are willing to listen, they want to know what the American farmer is doing on his or her operation. She says the average person today is so far removed from the farm that they simply just don't know anything about farming.
"We've got the science on our side. People are well-intentioned, they're just misinformed," Miller said. "It's up to us to tell our story before the other people do."
You can learn more about Miller's ag advocacy as Farm Babe by visiting her Facebook page or visit her website at www.farmbabe.org
To listen to more of what Michelle Miller had to say about her experiences advocating for agriculture, click on the LISTEN BAR below.
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