Oct 18, 2016 | 2016, Farmer of the Year, News
David Wildy, a diversified row crop farmer from Manila, Arkansas has been selected as the overall winner of the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year award for 2016.
Wildy was named as the overall winner at the Willie B. Withers Luncheon held during the opening day of the 2016 Sunbelt Ag Expo farm show. Wildy was chosen as Farmer of the Year over nine other state winners who were finalists for the award.
Jul 22, 2016 | 2016, Farmer of the Year
After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm and working as a staff member for the U.S. Congress, Tyler Wegmeyer of Hamilton, Va., found his calling as a full time farmer. Not far from Washington, D.C., he farms in historic and affluent Loudoun County, Va. He developed a...
Jul 22, 2016 | 2016, Farmer of the Year
On Fiery Gizzard Road near South Pittsburg, Tenn., James Haskew has built a successful farm where he grows corn, wheat, soybeans, hay and haylage. Haskew is an efficient producer, who adds value to his crops by operating a feed mill. He also adds income to his farm by...
Jul 22, 2016 | 2016, Farmer of the Year
Kerry Owen of Pickens, S.C., has had a sweet ride as an innovative producer of farm-raised honey. He’s a busy beekeeper who markets his own Bee Well brand of honey. A different type of farmer, Owen markets honey, bees and beekeeping supplies. He keeps bees on 26 farms...
Jul 22, 2016 | 2016, Farmer of the Year
Jerry Wyant of Vale, North Carolina is a diversified farmer with a knack for saving money and building what he needs to make his farm more efficient. He lives on the farm where he was raised, across from two old red barns, on Wyant Road, a country highway named for...
Jul 22, 2016 | 2016, Farmer of the Year
At age 90, Paul Good of Columbus, Miss., has had a long, distinguished and very good career in farming, first in his home state of Indiana and for the past 42 years in eastern Mississippi’s Noxubee County. A farmer for 70 years, he’s old enough to remember rural...
