Oct 18, 2022 | FOTY 2022 Profile, News
News ReleaseContact: Becca Turner(229) 985-1968 x2228Email: [email protected] For Immediate Release PDF of 2022 Farmer of the Year - Saunders Word File of 2022 Farmer of the Year - Saunders Press Release Page ROBERT E. SAUNDERS NAMED 2022 SOUTHEASTERN...
Jul 21, 2022 | FOTY 2022 Profile
In a reflective mood Robert Saunders, of Saunders Brothers, Inc. in Piney River, Virginia, quoted Mark Twain’s famous advice, “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” Growing up on a family farm as one of seven brothers was...
Jul 21, 2022 | FOTY 2022 Profile
Philadelphia, Tennessee, the home of Sweetwater Valley Farm, was settled as part of a Revolutionary War land grant in the early 1800s. At the turn of the twentieth century, it became a dairy farm, with the original barn built in 1917. Seventy years later, John and...
Jul 21, 2022 | FOTY 2022 Profile
Betty Allen Farms in Latta, South Carolina, has been in Keith Allen’s family for nearly 200 proverbial lean and fat years. Growing from a modest holding in 1837 to 3800 acres today, the farm has experienced everything from near loss at auction in 1917 to two recent...
Jul 21, 2022 | FOTY 2022 Profile
Kevin and Cindy Matthews own and operate Matthews Family Farms of North Carolina, Inc., Precision Nutrient Management, Inc., and Deep Creek Grain, Inc. in East Bend and Yadkinville, North Carolina. Matthews is the fourth generation on his family’s farm. He said, “With...
Jul 21, 2022 | FOTY 2022 Profile
Located in the rich, highly organic, blue gumbo clay soil or ‘terroir’ of the Mississippi Delta is Two Brooks Farm, owned by Michael L. Wagner. His family can count an unbroken line of ten generations of farmers back to 1742. Their prodigious, consistent labor has...
