Gilmer Dairy Farm News
National Farm-City Week focuses on
hunger in America
The
following article appeared in the 12/5/08 edition of The
Cultivator, a publication of the
Alabama
Farmers Federation, and can be viewed in its entirety at
http://www.alfafarmers.org/cultivator/index.phtml?id=4240.
The radio program mentioned is archived on
Agri-Talk's website (Gilmer can be heard on the final
segment).
The National Farm City Council held its annual meeting and kicked off National Farm-City Week with a symposium focusing on "Combating Hunger in America," at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham Nov. 20.
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Mike Adams of AgriTalk Radio, left, interviews Alabama Young Farmers Chairman Will Gilmer of Sulligent about how farmers help combat hunger through Second Harvest. |
The meeting began with a live broadcast of AgriTalk Radio, a nationally syndicated agriculture program. The show's host, Mike Adams, interviewed Alabama Young Farmers Chairman Will Gilmer regarding the organization's work with Second Harvest, a hunger-relief organization that provides emergency food assistance through a network of more than 200 food banks. Several students and professional staff at Auburn University also were interviewed about programs the school promotes to combat hunger.
