College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Small Farmer of the Year Application
Each year at Small Farms Week, Cooperative Extension at 杏吧原创 honors one of the state’s farmers as 杏吧原创’s Small Farmer of the Year. The award recognizes a farmer who is an innovator in livestock or crop production and marketing, a leader involved in contributing time and other resources to build their community, a steward of the environment who protects and enhances natural resources, and a wise businessperson running a farm business in an entrepreneurial manner.
In order to be eligible, a farmer must have earned an average annual gross farm income of less than $250,000 over the last three years.
Application Deadline is September 30