On Oct. 20th, Senator Brian Birdwell congratulated the award winners from the 2023 Family Land Heritage Celebration hosted by Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. The winners have demonstrated a long history of agricultural involvement throughout Texas.
Senator Brian Birdwell brings attention to the Family Land Heritage Awards ceremony that honors farmers with a long history.
The Family Land Heritage Program was established by the Texas Dept. of Agriculture (TDA) with the purpose of honoring "families who have owned and run a continuous agricultural operation for 100 years or more," according to the Program website. At the annual ceremony hosted by the TDA, awards are given to families who have shown dedicated work to agriculture through many generations. Qualifications for the award include being able to trace the land from present all the way back to the purchasing of the land and in all that time to have retained at least ten acres that have been in continuous production.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller served as the host for this year's Family Land Heritage Program award ceremony. The TDA website shares that Miller has served in his position as Agriculture Commissioner since 2014, being most recently reelected for his third term in 2022. Through his work, his TDA webpage shares that he has helped to reshape and reinvigorate the Department of Agriculture, being involved in programs that inform people about Texas Agriculture and encourage them to improve their usage of Texas' natural resources.
Senator Brian Birdwell congratulated the winners of this year's Family Land Heritage Ceremony and has served in position since 2010. Birdwell graduated from Lamar University in Beaumont, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and earned his Masters of Public Administration from the University of Missouri-Kansas. He served as a U.S. Army officer for twenty years and on the Dept. of Army staff in the Pentagon beginning in 2001. Having been reelected to the Senate several times, Birdwell now continues to serve as the Senator for District 22.
