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Virginia Farmer Michael H. McDowell Named 2019 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year

Virginia Farmer Michael H. McDowell Named 2019 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year

Oct 15, 2019 | 2019, Farmer of the Year, News

Media Resources:  PDF   Word   Photo [Moultrie, GA]—Michael H. McDowell of Vernon Hill, Virginia has been selected as the overall winner of the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year award for 2019. He is a fourth generation Halifax County farmer...
MICHAEL H. McDOWELL NAMED 2019 VIRGINIA FARMER OF THE YEAR

MICHAEL H. McDOWELL NAMED 2019 VIRGINIA FARMER OF THE YEAR

Jul 7, 2019 | 2019, Farmer of the Year

Nestled in the rolling hills and timberland of the southern Piedmont area of Virginia, Locust Level Farm is in a part of the state where, historically, fields of two to fifteen acres produced tobacco, supplemented by row crops. Michael McDowell is the fourth...
JERRY RAY NAMED 2019 TENNESSEE FARMER OF THE YEAR

JERRY RAY NAMED 2019 TENNESSEE FARMER OF THE YEAR

Jul 7, 2019 | 2019, Farmer of the Year

In his forty-five-year career as a diversified farmer, Jerry Ray has never worked for anyone but himself. This means that when things go well—in the ordinary course of fat years and lean—he earns the rewards. And when they don’t, he accepts the full weight of...
SIDI LIMEHOUSE NAMED 2019 SOUTH CAROLINA FARMER OF THE YEAR

SIDI LIMEHOUSE NAMED 2019 SOUTH CAROLINA FARMER OF THE YEAR

Jul 7, 2019 | 2019, Farmer of the Year

Sidi Limehouse (pronounced “sigh dye”) is a man with deep Lowcountry roots. His early mercantile ancestors settled in Charleston in the 1700s and spread out from there. When he came into the world on Johns Island in December of 1938, his father celebrated by...
JOHNNY WISHON NAMED 2019 NORTH CAROLINA FARMER OF THE YEAR

JOHNNY WISHON NAMED 2019 NORTH CAROLINA FARMER OF THE YEAR

Jul 7, 2019 | 2019, Farmer of the Year

Johnny Wishon didn’t grow up on a farm, but his father, a game warden, did. Wishon remembers, “We had a little over five acres of land, and my dad always had the biggest garden in the county. He would let me grow extra vegetables to sell to the local grocery store.”...
TED PARKER NAMED 2019 MISSISSIPPI FARMER OF THE YEAR

TED PARKER NAMED 2019 MISSISSIPPI FARMER OF THE YEAR

Jul 7, 2019 | 2019, Farmer of the Year

Forty years ago Ted Parker borrowed $5,000 to rent forty acres in Oloh, Mississippi. He now spends his days operating six farms in six different locations in six counties in the piney country of south Mississippi. He recalls, “In those early times I continued to...
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