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8-6-02
Contact: Larry Kemmerlin, (803) 936-4246

SCFB Women's Committee Sponsors
Youth Leadership Conference

Forty-five high school juniors and seniors from around the state  recently participated in the 2002 South Carolina Farm Bureau Youth Leadership Conference.

The annual SCFB conference featured a number of workshops, including such topics as legislative awareness, teambuilding, leadership skills, ag awareness and marine biology.

According to SCFB Women’s Program Coordinator Faith Lawrimore, “Today’s youths have a greater opportunity to succeed than the generations before them.  They have more knowledge and information at their disposal and have higher degrees of technology at their fingertips. This conference is designed to entice participants to learn about the many opportunities in agriculture while enhancing their leadership skills.”

Lawrimore added, “They can be the new blood of agriculture keeping South Carolina’s agricultural industry a vital part of the state’s economy.”

The conference was coordinated with the assistance of state and county Farm Bureau Women’s Committees, who, in addition to working with this event, sponsor a variety of other educational and promotional programs each year.

SCFB is a non-profit organization designed to promote the interests of agriculture in South Carolina.  There are more than 130,500 member families statewide, with more than 33,000 of those families directly involved in South Carolina farming.

Persons interested in supporting agricultural education are encouraged to contact their county Farm Bureau office or the South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation for additional information.

Leadership Conference attendees included:

Allendale County: Hollie Deer
Bamberg
County: Ashleigh Crider, Brittany Hartzog
Barnwell
County: Brittany Champy
Beaufort
County: Sarah Morgan
Calhoun
County: Roland Stephen, Joseph Fairey, IV, Trish Robinson, Rebecca Robinson
Chester
County: Katie Darby
Dorchester
County: Landon Wimberly, Adam Pendarvis, Holly Branch, Kelli Reeves
Edgefield
County: Daniel Fraley, Tray Cockrell
Fairfield County: Brittany Melvin, Ashley Mills
Florence
County: Renee Turner, Hart Davidson, Landon Reynolds, JoBeth Brown, Katie Moore
Georgetown
County: Ashley Williams, Eddie Owens,Blake Graham
Horry
County: R. A. Johnson, Blake Stevens
Lexington
County: Allan Smith
Newberry
County: Melynda Kesler, Hayley Senn, Erica Ettinger
Orangeburg
County: Landrum Weathers, Jr., Tyler Arant, Kristen Shuler, Meredith Shuler
Pickens
County: D. J. Petit
Sal
uda County: Lauren Black,Tara Stanfield, Lauren Mitchell,Matt Mills
Sumter County: Melissa Hayes, Julie Ray, Ryan Newman 
York
County:
Katie Stegall  

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