About the Arkansas Farm Family Program

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Kelly, 4K Farms Sebastian – Caleb, Hannah, Thadd & Halle Crelia Sevier – Josh Walker, Red Bud Farms Sharp – Chance & Kate Battles, Battles Cattle Company Stone – Owen Brickell family Union – Buddy Henley family: Buddy, Pat & Ray Henley, Henley Feed Store Van Buren – Steve & Pam Bone, Bone Land & Cattle Washington – Tim/Tyler Whorton White – Sandra & Rickey Wright and Frances Byrd, Byrd Ranch Woodruff – Shawn & Kelly Peebles family, Shawn Peebles Organic Farms Yell – Vernon “Cotton” & Elise Morrison

The Farm Family of the Year program begins each year with the selection of top farm families in each county and culminates in December with the selection of the state Farm Family of the Year, who then go on to represent Arkansas at the Swisher Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year.

Arkansas has had two Southeast Farm of the Year winners, Brian and Nan Kirksey of Clark County in 2008 and Wildy Family Farms of Mississippi County in 2016.

Sponsors of the Farm Family of the Year program are Arkansas Farm Bureau, the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas and the three Farm Credit agencies that serve Arkansas: AgHeritage Farm Credit Services, Farm Credit of Western Arkansas and Midsouth Farm Credit.

Additionally, support for the program is provided by the Arkansas Agriculture Department, Arkansas Department of Career Education, Arkansas Press Association, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Rural Development.