Farm Family Day is a partnership with the Missouri Farm Bureau and other key industry organizations. For 64 years Farm Family Day at the Missouri State Fair has been recognizing Missouri’s Farm Families and the role they play in our state’s economy and vitality! Nominated families from each county are selected to represent their county for this honor, based on their farming operation, community activity, participation in or with 4-H, and upholding the qualities that honor farming’s roots.
The Missouri Farm Bureau, along with the Missouri Department of Agriculture, the Missouri State Fair and State Fair Commissioners, MU Extension and Engagement, and the University of Missouri College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources partner annually to put on this traditional event.
The families are honored to represent all the varied farming operations that make up our state, from row crops and cattle, pork and chicken operations, to organic farms, nut, and fruit orchard operations, agritourism, and even intercity urban gardening operations — our Farm Families represent a slice of rural life in our state.
2024 Local Missouri State Farm families include…
Carter: Price Family Farm
Douglas: The Prescott Family-Prescott Family Reindeer Farm
Howell: Franks Family Farm
Oregon: The Blake & Michelle Martin Family
Ozark: King Family Farms
Ripley: Bland Family Farm
Shannon: The Thomas Family
Texas: Ramsey Red Angus
Wright: The Melton Family
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