McFarlands of Flying Eagle Ranch are an Amazing Farm Family
By Michelle Miller
Ag Daily
February is Black History Month, and there are some amazing black farmers to highlight across social media. While farmers make up less than 2 percent of the population, farmers of color are a fraction of the fraction: a minority of the general public. Here is the story of one of those farms.
The McFarland family from Flying Eagle Ranch in Louisiana includes Regina and Marius McFarland and their four grown children: Daniel McFarland (d_mac5 on Instagram), his brother Isaac (@ablackfarmer), and two other siblings, Hope and Adam (@uronlyhope_ and @mac_i_am). Daniel talks about how proud he was to grow up on the farm, where they all started showing cattle as early as 6 or 7 years old. Their father wanted to make sure his kids had a better life than he did, while instilling a strong work ethic and creating opportunities in a farm life consisting of cattle, chickens, hogs, and hay.