In our series to educate you about this year’s selectees for the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance’s Faces of Farming and Ranching program, we introduce you to a man who wants to educate the public about modern agriculture and how America’s farmers are feeding the world.

“It’s very, very important as an industry that we help educate our consumer base about what we do on a daily basis,” Darrell Glaser, a farmer with 600,000 turkeys and 200 cows near Rogers, Texas, told Cindy during an interview. “For the most part, consumers have very little knowledge of how their food is treated or handled and what we do to actually raise the products we do. So as an industry, I felt it was important to tell our story. It really is a good story.”

Darrell added that while consumers might not know a lot about what America’s farmers are doing to feed the world, they do want to learn. As a contract grower for Cargill, he has conducted many tours of his turkey operation, something he and his wife, who works as a professor at Texas A&M, decided to integrate into the original Glaser family cow farm when they both left college. Each of those operations have a sustainability factor as products from one help the other.

Looking forward to the next year as he is part of USFRA’s Food Dialogues program held in different cities where many stakeholders are invited to the conversation, Darrell believes it will be a great experience.

“It’s going to be an exciting year, and we’re looking forward to helping educate people about what we do every day on the farm and ranch.”

Follow Darrell on Facebook here.

Listen to all of Cindy’s interview with Darrell here: New USFRA Faces of Farming and Ranching - Darrell Glaser