2025 Farmer of the Year Press Releases
Standing Strong in Agriculture: Supporting Farmers When They Need Us Most
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | October 3, 2025 | feature | 0 Comments
By Amy Herring, ABAC Agricultural Communication Long days filled with sweat, sacrifice, and heartache, all poured into the mission of feeding America. Farmers, often overlooked, remain the backbone of America. Behind the barns and tractors are real people quietly...
From Pond to Plate: Aquaculture
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | September 24, 2025 | feature | 0 Comments
By Lydia Hill, ABAC Agricultural Communication If your nose leads you to the Aquaculture Building, you can thank Chef Chris Wilton. Each year, Auburn Extension invites Wilton to create new, exotic catfish recipes for live cooking demonstrations, turning fresh fillets...
2025 Sunbelt Ag Expo Top 10 Innovation Award Winners
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | September 13, 2025 | Innovation Award, News | 0 Comments
2025 Sunbelt Ag Expo Innovation Award Winners Learn more about each Top 10 product below. These are in alphabetical order by company name and not an official ranking of the top 10. To learn more about the Sunbelt Ag Expo Innovation Award, visit...
What to see at the Sunbelt Ag Expo
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | September 10, 2025 | News | 0 Comments
Ag Teachers Check out all of these amazing opportunities for your students: Wednesday, October 15 Youth Educational Challenges sponsored by Hays LTI Contest from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Lunch at 11:00 am Award Ceremony at 2:00 pm Advocacy in Action Contest sponsored by...
Trouble with the Bermudagrass Stem Maggot?
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | August 11, 2025 | feature | 0 Comments
By Dr. Lisa Baxter, UGA State Forage Extension Specialist Bermudagrass hay producers throughout the region are currently battling the bermudagrass stem maggot, or BSM. This pest has damaged bermudagrass forage each summer since it was first discovered back in 2010. ...
2025 Farmer of the Year – Steve Hopkins – Virginia
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | July 14, 2025 | 2025 FOTY | 0 Comments
Steve Hopkins Virginia Farmer of the Year 2025 Seven generations of Hopkins family members have worked to maintain and grow their Riverview Farms Cattle operation in Louisa. Steve and sons Blake and Garrett run the 1200+ acre cattle, crops, and poultry operation as...
2025 Farmer of the Year – Jeff Wilson – South Carolina
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | July 14, 2025 | 2025 FOTY | 0 Comments
Jeff WIlson South Carolina Farmer of the Year 2025 Cotton Hills Farm in Lowrys has been operating continuously since 1882, when the original 100 acre home place was gifted to Theodosia Abell by her father on the occasion of her wedding to Joseph Wilson. Cotton, small...
2025 Farmer of the Year – David “Harrell” Overman – North Carolina
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | July 14, 2025 | 2025 FOTY | 0 Comments
David "Harrell" Overman North Carolina Farmer of the Year 2025 Harrell Overman is a sixth-generation Wayne County farmer whose grandfather rented him a 13-acre tobacco farm to work when he was just 14 years old. He and his wife, Lorenda, have been farming row crops...
2025 Farmer of the Year – Kent Hamilton – Georgia
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | July 14, 2025 | 2025 FOTY | 0 Comments
Kent Hamilton Georgia Farmer of the Year 2025 Kent Hamilton is CEO of Southern Valley Fruit and Vegetable, Inc., based in Norman Park. Kent said, “It was founded in 1987 and is a women-owned and family-operated corporation that’s spent generations growing, packing,...
2025 Farmer of the Year – James “Jim” Alderman – Florida
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | July 14, 2025 | 2025 FOTY | 0 Comments
James "Jim" Alderman Florida Farmer of the Year 2025 A fourth-generation Floridian, Jim Alderman was one of eight children born into a farming family that first came to Florida in the 1820s. As a child he worked in the orange groves and helped out with his father and...