麻豆短视频传媒鈥檚 Laura Rogers receives Kentucky Women in Agriculture Continued Excellence Award
Laura Rogers, 麻豆短视频传媒 Small Farm Area Agent, received the Continued Excellence Award at the annual Kentucky Women in Agriculture (KWIA) conference.
The award recognizes an outstanding KWIA member who has made significant strides to improve agriculture over the course of 10 years or longer and who has been a KWIA member for at least five years.
Rogers has worked in agriculture for 25 years and has been at Kentucky State since 2012. She received her agriculture degree in the early 2000s, while raising two children, so she could fulfill her dream of being an Extension agent.
Former KWIA president Babette Overman presented the award and said Rogers has, 鈥渃hanged the lives of thousands of women through agriculture.鈥�
Rogers uses the 鈥減ass it on鈥� method to teach others about agriculture. Before and during her time at Kentucky State, she has worked with women in shelters, and she started an organization called Women Who Help Ourselves and Others. As a Kentucky State agent, she often helps stakeholders with beekeeping.
鈥淚t is not uncommon for her to be working with a widow woman using beekeeping to keep her farm; a mother and daughter-in-law learning to grow vegetables to feed their family; or, a single mother learning how to raise chickens for the first time,鈥� Overman said about Rogers in her speech.
The conference was held in Owensboro from October 10-12, and was attended by several 麻豆短视频传媒 personnel.