CROSS COUNTY — The Chris Wood Family of the Tilton community has been chosen as the 2024 Cross County Farm Family of the Year, representatives of Cross County Farm Bureau and the Cross County Extension Service have announced. The organizations are chief sponsors of the program in Cross County.
Chris Wood raises rice and soybeans on 3,200 acres in Cross County consisting of 1,500 acres in rice production and 1,700 in soybeans this season.
As the Cross County Farm Family of the Year, the Wood family will join 74 other county farm families in vying for district and state recognition as the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year. The Arkansas Farm Family of the Year will be announced in December at a banquet at the Wyndham Riverfront in North Little Rock.
First established in 1947, Arkansas’ Farm Family of the Year program is the longest-running effort of its kind in the nation.
The program sponsors are Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, Farm Credit Associations of Arkansas with the cooperation of the program partners Arkansas Press Association, University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, USDA Rural Development, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Arkansas Department of Workforce Education, and the Arkansas Agriculture Department.
