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 More and more farmers and ranchers are using social media to help the public understand what they do on their operations and why.

Social media hasn’t just hit the mainstream.  It’s also hit the back roads and the back forty.  Jeff Fowle is a fourth generation farmer & rancher from northern California.  Social media has become an important part of his daily routine.

 On Twitter currently I am almost at 23,000 followers and on an average day I reach between 900 thousand and 1.3 million individuals.  Of those, I expect approximately 30 to 40 percent actually see at least one of my tweets per day.   More people are getting involved creating a Facebook page, getting on Twitter, utilizing YouTube to explain why what and how they put food on the plate. The growth has been amazing.  Fowle is president of the AgChat Foundation, a group that focuses on helping farmers and ranchers use social media technology to share their stories and make connections with people not involved with agriculture.

We have relied too long on having others share our story and the face of the American farmer has been forgotten.  And I think it’s time to put a face back on the plate