Staff report
A Salisbury duo won North Carolina Farm Bureau’s Achievement Award for 2008.
Jason and Robin Starnes were recognized at a Dec. 7 ceremony as of the Farm Bureau’s 73rd annual meeting at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center located at the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Seasons, a statement said.
The achievement recognizes farmers between 18 and 35 years old who are involved in the North Carolina Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Program and whose farm practices are judged to be the most outstanding in production efficiency, innovation, improvement and environmental stewardship.
The Starnes’s will compete in the national competition where they will vie for American Farm Bureau Federation’s Achievement Award, which will be awarded during the organization’s annual meeting in January in Texas.