Farmer Profiles

  • Heard Likes Double Cropping to Keep Farm Working

    May 20, 2013

    Glenn Heard is approaching the stage of a farmer’s career when his own dad retired. With 34 years behind him, he knows that one more crop will put him at 35 years – the time when his father retired.

  • Morris Finds Sweet Success with Vidalia Onions

    April 08, 2013

    Would an onion by any other name taste as sweet? Randall Morris doesn’t think so. Randall and his brother Howard run Morris Farms in Uvalda – a rural part of Southeast Georgia that’s in the heart of onion country.

  • Jeff Pittman, Keeping Up With The Future

    March 25, 2013

    At the end of the day, Jeff Pittman does the same job his father and grandfather did. He farms. But Pittman seems to spend more time thinking about the future of agriculture than its past. Pittman is the fourth generation of his family to work the same land, growing cotton and peanuts in Jackson County, Fla.

  • Byne Family One of Southeast’s First Blueberry Farmers

    March 12, 2013

    Dick Byne says he just loves the color blue – his eyes are blue, his clothes are blue, his food is blue. He’s joking, but his reason for choosing an improbable career in blueberries nearly 35 years ago isn’t much more complicated than that.

  • Rancher Enjoys Telling Farmers’ Story through Super Bowl Ad

    March 05, 2013

    It didn’t occur to Mary Roberts that the photographer tagging along with her on her Montana farm might want to take a picture of her. She was a little shocked (and pleased) when she saw her own face in a now famous Chrysler ad that aired during Super Bowl XLVII.

  • For Shaws, a New Crop, But Same Family Tie

    February 18, 2013

  • Pecans and Peaches: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

    February 05, 2013

    Al Pearson learned a lot about selling crops from his uncle Willard and grandfather John. Faced with a truckload of unsold peaches, Willard drove to Tampa years ago only to find himself stuck with a sticky mess of ripening fruit that no one wanted to buy. Eventually he traded the peaches for a truckload of cabbage, but the Florida heat wasn’t too kind to that cabbage either.

  • Eades Look to Future in Family-owned Dairy

    January 21, 2013

    The Eade farm in Marianna, Fla., is a family affair. Career dairyman Dale Eade owns and runs the farm with his wife, Cindy. Their two daughters work for the farm, along with one son-in-law.

  • Will Harris and White Oak Pastures, Doing What You Love

    January 14, 2013

    “This is what I always wanted to do,” said Harris, who runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, some of the same land his great grandfather started to work in the 1860s.

  • The Best Days are the Days Calves are Born

    January 07, 2013

    “By far, calving season is my favorite time of year,” said Long, who represents 53 counties as the Farm Bureau vice president for South Georgia. After nearly 40 years as a cattleman, Gerald gets teased by his wife about his priorities.