Donald and Alicia Blankenship were named Tennessee's young farmers of the year.
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A Rutherford County young farm couple have bested 27 other contestants from across the state of Tennessee to win the highest honor that a young farmer can receive in his occupation.
Donald and Alicia Blankenship, Murfreesboro residents and Rutherford
County Farm Bureau’s 2008 Young Farmer of the Year winners, were named
Tennessee Farm Bureau’s Outstanding Young Farmer and Achievement Award
winners during special ceremonies at the Tennessee Young Farmer
Conference held at the headquarter offices of the Tennessee Farm
Bureau in Columbia, Tennessee, July 18-19. Donald and Alicia, were
named this year’s winners based upon farm and financial records from
the farm year 2007. They farm 1490 acres of row crops, and manage a
100 head Angus beef cow herd located on the Halls Hill Pike. They also
have 18 acres of pumpkins and produce over 2000 to sale from the farm
each fall. Both have been very active in the Young Farmer and Rancher
program as well as the local Farm Bureau and their community. Donald
has served as a member of the state YF&R committee.
For being named this year’s winners the Blankenship’s will receive a
2008 Kubota RTV from Tennessee Farm Bureau, 150 hours use of a brand
new Case/IH tractor of their choice, $500 from Dodge, $500 in Farm
Bureau services, $500 from Tennessee Farm Bureau, a year's contract
from American Celluar, an insurance policy to cover the tractor for
one year from Tennessee Farmers Insurance Companies, and a trip to the
American Farm Bureau Convention in San Antonio, Texas January 2009,
where they will compete for national honors.
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