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A local producer donates land to grow corn silage and sweet corn for school fundraiser and outreach.

Shelley E. Huguley, Editor

October 15, 2019

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Dalhart Christian Academy, Dalhart, Texas, is producing its first fundraising-crop on land donated by a local grower with close ties to the academy. Funds raised by the sale of the corn silage, which is contracted to a local dairy, will be put back into the academy. 

Not only was the land donated but all of the inputs to produce the crop, except the electricity, were as well. And while the majority of the acres were planted to corn silage, the two acres of sweet corn planted were picked by the students and their families and distributed throughout the community to people in need.  

September 28, DCA held a Farm Field Day BBQ to celebrate the farm and update attendees on the crop progress and partnerships involved in making the crop possible. 

To learn more, click here, A financial need creates an opportunity to pay it forward

About the Author(s)

Shelley E. Huguley

Editor, Southwest Farm Press

Shelley Huguley has been involved in agriculture for the last 25 years. She began her career in agricultural communications at the Texas Forest Service West Texas Nursery in Lubbock, where she developed and produced the Windbreak Quarterly, a newspaper about windbreak trees and their benefit to wildlife, production agriculture and livestock operations. While with the Forest Service she also served as an information officer and team leader on fires during the 1998 fire season and later produced the Firebrands newsletter that was distributed quarterly throughout Texas to Volunteer Fire Departments. Her most personal involvement in agriculture also came in 1998, when she married the love of her life and cotton farmer Preston Huguley of Olton, Texas. As a farmwife, she knows first-hand the ups and downs of farming, the endless decisions made each season based on “if” it rains, “if” the drought continues, “if” the market holds. She is the bookkeeper for their family farming operation and cherishes moments on the farm such as taking harvest meals to the field or starting a sprinkler in the summer with the whole family lending a hand. Shelley has also freelanced for agricultural companies such as Olton CO-OP Gin, producing the newsletter Cotton Connections while also designing marketing materials to promote the gin. She has published articles in agricultural publications such as Southwest Farm Press while also volunteering her marketing and writing skills to non-profit organizations such as Refuge Services, an equine-assisted therapy group in Lubbock. She and her husband reside in Olton with their three children Breely, Brennon and HalleeKate.

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