Yuba County farmer wins Discussion Meet
Following a discussion about agricultural technology, a contestant from Yuba County won the annual Young Farmers and Ranchers Discussion Meet at the 102nd California Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. Madeline Meyer of Wheatland, a member of the Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau, was named winner of the competition, which was held at the California Farm Bureau building in Sacramento and webcast live as part of the organization’s virtual Annual Meeting. In the final round of the competition, contestants were asked to discuss the use of big data in agriculture. Meyer, an assistant manager at Tollcrest Dairy in Wheatland, encouraged farmers to make more use of the data available to them, in order to improve efficiency. “Technology is here to stay, and it’s our job as young farmers and ranchers to make it work for us, not the other way around,” she said. Darin DuPont of Merced County was first runner-up in the contest. The other finalists were Ryan Amaral of Stanislaus County and Joseph Jackson of Tulare County. As the winner of the Discussion Meet, Meyer earned $5,000 courtesy of sponsors Farm Credit and Kubota. As first runner-up, DuPont received $1,000. Meyer will represent California at the American Farm Bureau Federation Open Discussion Meet, to be held virtually next month as part of the AFBF Annual Convention.
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