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Crop watching all the way to Kentucky

Barb Bierman Batie
Aug 8, 2019
Aug 8, 2019 Updated Jun 25, 2020

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This week your Platte Valley Farm-Her is far from home attending the National IFYE Conference in Lexington, Ky. IFYE what? The acronym stands for an international cultural exchange that used to be called the International 4-H Youth Exchange, but like FFA, is now simply known as IFYE.

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