Farmweek Dates/Times
Central Time Zone
Mississippi Public Broadcasting Television
October 6 - Saturday, 6:30 p.m.
October 8 - Monday, 6 a.m.
DIRECTV, Channel 379 - DISH Network, Channel 231
October 5 - Friday, 5 p.m.
October 6 - Saturday, 1 a.m. & 6 a.m.
October 7 - Sunday, 8:30 a.m.
October 8 - Monday, 9 a.m.
What's on Farmweek
October 5-8, 2007
Text with Internet links
Questions? (662) 325-2262 - Artis Ford / Leighton Spann
October 5, 2007 - Fmwk #3113 - Show 1517
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30th Anniversary Show
Feature story: 30th Anniversary History
Feature story: Lillian Thornton, 1st Feature Story
Feature story: 1980 Year in Review
FARMWEEK BY THE NUMBERS
First broadcast, October 3, 1977. 1,517 shows to date.
3OTH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION - Video - See this story
Held Friday, September 28th at the MSU Television Center.
Appearing: Vance Watson, Ph.D. / Vice President / Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine.
Bill Bost, Ph.D. / Former Director / MSU Extension Service / 1962-1981
Mike Godwin / Director / Television Center / Mississippi State University
Tom Knecht, Ed.D. / Office of Agricultural Communications / Mississippi State University.
30TH ANNIVERSARY HISTORY - Video - See this story
A look back at how Farmweek got started and a few of the people who have worked on it.
Appearing: Bruce Johnson, Mike Windham, Artis Ford, Tyson Gair, Amy Taylor, Scott Huffman, Grady Carpenter, Norman Winter, Julian Watson.
Reporter / Photographer / Video Editor: Artis Ford
FIRST FARMWEEK FEATURE STORY - LILLIAN THORNTON - Video - See this story
81-year-old woman was raising registered Angus cattle in 1977. She could build gates and throw hay bales like a woman half her age.
1980 YEAR IN REVIEW - Video - See this story
Farmweek host Tyson Gair recounts the Russian Grain Embargo, droughts and flooding and many other events that happened that year.
Reporter / Photographer / Video Editor: Tyson Gair.
PREVIEW OF NEXT WEEK’S SHOW - Video
Feature story: Circle Y Equestrian Center, Corinth.
Southern Gardening: Electric Lime Coleus
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