Bill Brim now joins nine other state winners from the Southeast as finalists for the award
Vegetable farmer Bill Brim of Tifton been selected as the 2009 Georgia winner of the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year award.
Brim now joins nine other state winners from the Southeast as finalists for the award. The overall winner will be announced on Tuesday, October 20, at the Sunbelt Ag Expo farm show in Moultrie. Brim as made a name for himself in the produce business. An active farmer for 25 years, he currently farms about 2,500 acres of owned land and 1,500 acres of rented land.
His crops include peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, cantaloupes, watermelons, broccoli, peanuts, greens and cole crops. He raises vegetable transplants as well as pine tree seedlings in 42 greenhouses and maintains three modern facilities for packing and shipping his produce.