2025 SUNBELT AG EXPO SCHEDULE
Plan your trip by reviewing the schedule. The 2025 Sunbelt Ag Expo Schedule will be released September 2025. Check out the cool things that happened at last year's show to plan your trip!OFFICIAL 2025 SCHEDULE WILL BE AVAILABLE SEPT. 2025
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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...
2025 Farmer of the Year – Jeremy Allen – Arkansas
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | July 14, 2025 | 2025 FOTY | 0 Comments
Jeremy Allen Arkansas Farmer of the Year 2025 Jeremy Allen of Bismarck has deep family roots in Hot Springs County. His grandfather started a dairy in the 1950s, and his parents were poultry farmers who built three chicken layer houses. Jeremy bought his first set of...
2025 Farmer of the Year – Dr. Issac “Nealy” Barrett, Jr. – Alabama
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | July 14, 2025 | 2025 FOTY | 0 Comments
Dr. Issac "Nealy" Barrett, Jr. Alabama Farmer of the Year 2025 Bar Neal Farms in Wetumpka is a fifth-generation farming and ranching operation with deep roots in central Alabama. Nealy Barrett Jr. started his own cow herd at the age of thirteen with twelve stocker...
Research in Motion: Trials at the Sunbelt Ag Expo Research Farm
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | May 21, 2025 | feature | 0 Comments
If you ride anywhere in rural South Georgia, you are bound to see dust in the air and tractors and planters in the field moving full-speed ahead…well, really at a tortoise pace. An unseasonably cool, dry spring has farmers in this area of the country a bit behind at...
The “Old-Fashioned” Way of Doing Business
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | January 30, 2025 | feature | 0 Comments
It’s so easy to pick up our phone or computer, pull up our favorite search engine, type in a term, and search for what we want to know. Directions, a recipe, the best way to do something, the latest trend, how to fix something, the best price for an item - you name...
SUNBELT IN REVIEW 2024: CAROLINA’S FIELD, FOREST & WATER
by Sunbelt Ag Expo | November 7, 2024 | News | 0 Comments
CAROLINA'S FIELD, FOREST & WATER - Season 3, Ep. 8 SC Governor's School for Agriculture at De la Howe In this special edition of our student-led podcast, our host Dell Brockman and field reporter Carson Griggs go on-location to the annual SUNBELT AG EXPO in...