LITTLE ROCK – The 76th annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program has announced its 2023 County Farm Families of the Year.
The Mississippi County Farm Family is the Donner Family of Manila with Blackwater Farms/Donner Farms.
The Poinsett County Farm Family is Jeffe Fley and Logan White with White Fley Farms in Weona.
The Craighead County Farm Family is Jonathan Bobbitt/Bobbitt Family; JAB Farms in Lake City.
The families will be visited by a set of judges to determine eight District Farm Families of the Year, which will be announced June 13. The state Farm Family of the Year will be announced in December at the Farm Family of the Year luncheon, who then represent Arkansas at the Southeastern Expo Farmer of the Year event in Georgia.
Arkansas has had two Southeast Farmer of the Year winners, Brian and Nan Kirksey of Clark County in 2008 and Wiley Family Farms of Mississippi County in 2016.
Sponsors of the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program are Arkansas Farm Bureau, the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas and the Farm Credit Associations of Arkansas.
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 Ulda Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Rural Development.