Menard County Farm Bureau

10/27/2021

10/21/2021

It was a great Banquet, Thank you to everyone that made it possible!

10/05/2021

Happy Tuesday folks!!

09/27/2021

Menard County Farm Bureau is hosting a membership drive. In addition to competitive rates, Farm Bureau membership comes with significant savings from everything from hotel stays to entertainment and so much more!
There are two ways to be entered into the raffle: existing members whose memberships are due and paid from August through October and anyone who would like to become a member can stop by and sign up/pay during that time. The raffle consists of a free one month membership to FitZone in Menard, plus five personal training sessions with Matt Sirls. For information call Karla or Zach at 325-396-4904 or stop by the office at 700 Ellis, M-F 9-12 1-4. Watch our page for future raffles!

09/23/2021

It’s time for our Annual Meeting. We hope you will join us October 11 @ 6:30 pm at the Burnes Pavilion in Lee Pfluger Park Eden Texas. Members can bring a dessert for all to enjoy and to enter in the dessert contest, where prizes will be given 1st-3rd. Our meal will be provided by Second Hand Smoke. Don’t forget we are giving out door prizes also. Come enjoy the evening💙

09/14/2021

I posted this Belden photo this morning and promptly took it down because a lot of people were upset by it. As we sorted pairs this afternoon I couldn’t help but think about how we share this sugar-coated version of life on social media.

People want to see cattle in belly-deep grass with healthy calves at their sides. They want to see a cowboy trotting along a mountainside with wildflowers dotting the landscape. Most people want the fairytale. The reality is that ranching is not always rainbows and unicorns. Come calving there will be snow, many late nights, muddy boots, and straw in places you’d rather not have it.

As much as we try to keep all of the calves warm and well-fed the reality is that sometimes this happens. There will be days we’ll have an unexpected Spring storm and our calving barn will be a mess of blankets, colostrum, warm milk, and cold noses. Our top priority is always the care of our cattle but we simply cannot control the weather and Mother Nature can be harsh and unrelenting, especially in the mountains of Wyoming. The reality and the hard truth is that ranching isn’t always pretty and it isn’t always easy.

📷: Charles Belden from the Buffalo Bill Center Of The West Archives. Mid 1900’s.

08/17/2021

Loving the rain💦☔️🌨

06/30/2021

Stop by your local Farm Bureau office and check out the benefits of becoming a member!