Gilmer Dairy Farm News

WILL POWER: Gilmer Sees Internet as Tool to Sing Praises for Farming

(written by Darryal Ray for Neighbors Magazine, March 2010. View full article here)

Will Gilmer admits days on the family’s Lamar County dairy farm can grow long, especially when the tractor’s radio doesn’t work and he’s all alone with “nothing but time and engine hum.”

“When you get through solving the world’s problems in your mind, you start thinking of other things,” says the 30-year-old, third-generation dairyman.

For Gilmer, those “other things” are usually ways he can tell farming’s story — whether it’s through the farm’s Web site, its Edopt-a-Cow program, his Dairyman’s Blog, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

His is a multi-faceted approach to farm evangelism, the kind of do-it-all strategy he plans to continue in his new role as chairman of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee.

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