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Deserving Farmers Receive 6th Annual Young Farmer Sustainability Award and 2nd Annual Produce Innovation Award at Bayer AgVocacy Forum in New Orleans. The Young Farmer Sustainability Award was presented to Tyler Wegmeyer of Wegmeyer Farms, a commercial wholesale, u-pick and agritourism operation in northern Virginia. The Produce Innovation Award received by Amy Machamer and Hurd Orchards, a family-owned fruit farm in upstate New York.
President and CEO of Bayer CropScience LP, Jim Blome said, “We are proud to recognize two farmers who are committed to modern, sustainable agriculture and focused on strengthening the public’s connection with agriculture.”
Wegmeyer Farms, owned and operated by Tyler and Harriet Wegmeyer, grows strawberries, pumpkins and approximately 30 other specialty crops in addition to corn, soybeans and wheat.
Amy Machamer, along with her mother, Susan Hurd Machamer, own and operate Hurd Orchards in Holley, New York. The sixth-and seventh-generation farmers grow apples, sweet and sour cherries, peaches, nectarines, pears and various other fresh fruits on the 200-year-old farm.
Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/