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.
2021 RIVER FRIENDLY FARMER AWARD INFORMATION
Nominations for the 2021 River Friendly Farmer Award are now open for submission. Nominations must be received via the online nomination form (link provided below) by end of business on Thursday, June 10, 2021. All nominations must also include a Signature Page (link provided below). The Signature page can be mailed or emailed to Amy Work at IASWCD, 225 S. East Street, Suite 142, Indianapolis, IN 46202 (amy-work@iaswcd.org).
2021 RFF Online Nomination Form
Questions to Preview for Online Nomination Form
2021 Signature Page (required) can be downloaded here.
Normally, Indiana’s River Friendly Farmers Award recipients are honored in an awards ceremony on Farmer’s Day during the Indiana State Fair. The 2020 ceremony had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and cancellation of the fair. The 2021 Awards ceremony details have not been determined at this time. We will communicate with all award recipients as information is received.
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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 |
List of past RFF Award Recipients (2000-2019)
