by Matt Hughes
J-E News Editor
Earlier this year Providence Guidance Councilor Tammy White and her family were named “Union County’s Outstanding Young Farm Family of the Year” by the Union County Farm Bureau during their annual meeting in the Arnold Convention Center in Sturgis.
That honor made them eligible for competition at the state level, and late last week Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) announced that the full field of candidates had been narrowed down to three deserving families: Shane and Mary Courtney of Shelby County, Jonathan and Jessica Gaskins of Adair County, and Dustin and Tammy White of Union County.
The White family raises hay, straw, wheat, corn, soybeans and seed beans on their farm. Their farm is a total of just over 14,000 acres, with 11,300 of that reserved for crops. The remainder is used as pasture land for their 870 beef cattle.
The family that is ultimately named Kentucky’s Outstanding Young Farm Family of the Year will receive a Case IH Scout, sponsored by KFB Insurance Co. and Case IH, $1,000 cash from Premier Crop Insurance, $750 Dyna-Gro seed voucher from Crop Production Services, $500 voucher from Southern States, Portable handgun safe from Misty Morn Safe Company, Apple iPad2 from Republic Bank and Trust, Voucher for 16 bags of seed corn from Pioneer Seed and an expenses paid trip to San Antonio, TX for the AFBF Annual Meeting sponsored by KFB.
Values used in judging the application will be:
•Farm Operation & Growth 70 points
•Financial Progress of Operation 60 points
•Farm Bureau Leadership 40 points
•Other Leadership 30 points
(Ag=15 pts., Community=10 pts., Youth=5 pts.)
•Total 200 points
The winner will be announced on December 6, 2013 at Kentucky Farm Bureau’s conference.
The finalist were interviewed in the October 2013 edition of Kentucky Farm Bureau Reports:
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