I challenge you to take an hour out of your week to give thanks to farmers and ranchers. Here are some options:

Write a letter to the editor. This article provides NCBA’s template on how to write a letter over giving thanks to farmers in ranchers in five easy steps. It also offers some helpful tips like keeping your letter less than 150 words.

Donate your Facebook or Twitter status to thanking farmers and ranchers.  You can include a link to http://www.beeffrompasturetoplate.com so friends and family have a place to go to get more information.

Thank your food providers in a public forum.  This is one that I plan on incorporating myself. Often we bring lunchtime speakers into the law school. We open the meetings by thanking the organization that provided the funding for food. When I fill this role from now on, I plan on making a point to also thank the farmers and ranchers that produced the food. 

Search the Internet and comment on news stories, blog posts and YouTube videos that are negative towards agriculture with an opposing viewpoint.  By searching for negative terms like “factory farming” on Google news or Google blogs you’ll come up with lots of results the shine a negative light on agriculture. This is the perfect opportunity to respond positively from a producer’s perspective.

This is something I’d like to see more people in the industry routinely schedule into their week. Just think, for every 40 people who make the commitment to spending an hour a week representing agriculture on the Internet, it’s like having another full time employee working to promote agriculture.