Kiwanis hosts Farm-City Week celebration

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. The Kiwanis Club of Monticello gave tribute to farmers at their weekly meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 15. In recognition of Farm-City Week, the luncheon's invited guests included local and state Farm Bureau officers, board members and staff; the 2023 Farm Family of the Year; and numerous elected officials. Farm-City Week takes place annually during the week before Thanksgiving and is an important way to focus attention on and celebrate how rural and urban communities work together to make our food supply safe and plentiful. Through this rural-urban partnership, food comes from farmers to packing/processing operations to distribution networks to grocery store