If you think the war in Ukraine doesn't affect you, a Macon County Farm Bureau leader asks you to reconsider.

Lance Muirheid, chairman of the Macon County Farm Bureau Young Leaders, indicated on Friday morning members of the Macon County Farm Bureau met on a Zoom call with a Ukrainian farmer to learn more about the conflict firsthand.

Muirheid found the discussion to be very enlightening. He said despite the language barrier, "farmers speak farmer." The Ukrainian farmer described how farmers were contributing to the war effort.

Muirheid is reminding everyone that this conflict while it may seem as if it is happening in a remote part of the world has impacts here at home due to growing fifteen percent of the world's corn crop.

Hear more on this story when Jared White talks with Macon County Farm Bureau board member Paul Butler on the Farm Show.