Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year, News
Download Press Release as PDF. Download Press Release as Word Doc. Previously on our site: KEVIN YON NAMED 2018 SOUTH CAROLINA FARMER OF THE YEAR (Moultrie, Ga.)—Kevin Yon, a highly successful purebred Angus beef cattle producer and a leader in beef cattle and Angus...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
If you have ever enjoyed eating rainbow trout in upscale restaurants in the eastern U.S., you might thank Howard Brown of Andrews, N.C. He and his business, C.R. Brown Enterprises, have played a large part in developing the trout farming industry in western North...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
Lonnie Fortner of Port Gibson, Miss., left his career as a county executive director with the USDA Farm Service Agency to become a farmer. He started as a farm manager and later was made a partner in Rock Lake Planting Company. He recently branched out on his own as...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
An occasional local talk radio personality, Darren Luttrell is also a third-generation farmer, a successful poultry producer and a high yielding corn and soybean grower. He lives in Beaver Dam, Ky., and farms in Ohio County near the Olaton community. Luttrell’s farm...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
An attorney who practices law from offices on his farm, James Vaughn of Forsyth, Ga., is especially proud of taking a 650-acre pine tree plantation and converting it over a ten-year period into productive pastures where he raises forages for his beef cattle. As a...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
Lynetta Usher Griner’s life and career plans changed dramatically during 1989. That year, her brother Tommy Usher died in a boating accident on the Suwannee River. A seventh generation Floridian, Lynetta lives in Levy County, Fla., where she had been practicing law....
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
Luke Alston of Mena, Ark., gave up a stable career as a Farm Bureau insurance claims adjuster to pursue his dream of farming. He returned to his family’s farm where his great-great grandfather homesteaded in 1897. At his Holly Springs Homestead farm, he built eight...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
John DeLoach of Vincent, Ala., is successfully raising row crops on a farm that has been in his family since 1820. He grows corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and hay on his 1,325-acre farm. He owns 710 acres and rents 615 acres. DeLoach’s yields have been good. His per...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
Paul Rogers, Jr., of Wakefield, Va., has had a long and successful farming career, and an equally extensive and rewarding avocation as a youth league and high school baseball coach. As a result of his success as a crop farmer, Rogers has been selected as state winner...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
A fulltime farmer for 16 years, John Verell of Jackson, Tenn., takes a scientific approach to producing high yields on his successful 5,050-acre crop farm. He grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 3,000 rented acres and 2,050 acres of owned land. As a result of his...
Jul 23, 2018 | 2018, Farmer of the Year
A son and grandson of sharecroppers, first generation Angus breeder Kevin Yon and his family from Ridge Spring, S.C., have established Yon Family Farms as one of the best Angus seedstock herds in the nation. Yon is a leader in the beef industry and in Angus...
