
HISTORY of the River-Friendly Farmer Award
Since 1999, key conservation and agricultural organizations have sponsored the River Friendly Farmer (RFF) Program. The statewide initiative recognizes farmers, who through good production management practices helps keep Indiana’s rivers, lakes and streams clean.
Annually, each county Soil and Water Conservation District may nominate up to two farmers who do an outstanding job of protecting their rivers, lakes and streams through their every day conservation management practices on the farm. Watershed organizations also may nominate farmers for the award by submitting an application to a county SWCD.
The River Friendly Farmers Awards Ceremony originally scheduled at the Indiana State Fairgrounds has been cancelled due to the cancellation of the Indiana State Fair. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please contact the local Soil and Water Conservation District
regarding any ceremony details.
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2020 River Friendly Farmer Recipients:
Farm Name/Farm Family Recipient: | County: |
Philip Atkinson | Benton |
Alan and Suzanne Lyon | Boone |
John and Donna Padgett | Boone |
Groover Farms LLC | Clay |
Memering Farms | Daviess |
Lobenstein Farm | Dearborn |
Wolfert Farms LLC | Dearborn |
K & E Farms Inc. | Decatur |
Dan Hiatt | Delaware |
Stoney-M Farm | Elkhart |
Phillip Smith | Fayette |
Summers Grain and Livestock | Hendricks |
Schroeter/Bryant Farms | Howard |
Joe and Elaine Carroll, Carroll Farms | Huntington |
Betty Settle Drinkut | Jay |
Villwock Farms | Knox and Daviess |
J and M Roberts Farms LLC | Kosciusko |
Adam Lemler | Marshall |
Bryan Schmeiser | Morgan |
Ron & Sherry Cash | Putnam |
The Randall & Jaymie Dickson Family | Starke |
Dailey Farms | Steuben |
Toby and Hannah Hart | Switzerland |
Danny Works | Switzerland |
Rexing & Rexing | Vanderburgh |
Hadley Farms | Wabash |
Clayton Barchet | Warrick |
Nick Purkhiser | Washington |
Harold Routson | Wayne |
Cassiday Farms, Inc. | Wells |
Ashbaugh Family Farms | Whitley |