Ryan Kirby Named 2011 Sustainability Award Winner
Ryan Kirby, a 2,500-acre grower from Belcher, La., was named the 2011 Tomorrow’s Top Producer Sustainability Award winner, presented by Top Producer and sponsored by Bayer CropScience at the Tomorrow’s Top Producer meeting in Chicago on Jan. 25.
Bayer CropScience and Top Producer teamed up to recognize young producers who excel in business and environmental sustainability with the Tomorrow’s Top Producer Sustainability Award.
Entrants were judged on entrepreneurship and new approaches to farming (50%), environmental and other on-farm sustainability efforts (30%) and economic stability and sustainability (20%).
Kirby demonstrates his sustainable practices -- growing cotton, corn, soybeans and wheat with water-conserving irrigation systems, precision application of fertilizer and inputs, and diversified crop rotations to manage risk. According to Kirby’s application for the award, he defines sustainability in agriculture as “the ability of agriculture to feed the entire world population without sacrificing the long-term viability or health of anything that agriculture affects, from the farmer to the consumer and the environment.”
He received a new Pansonic Toughbook rugged laptop and all-expense-paid trips for two to the 2011 Tomorrow's Top Producer Seminar in Chicago and the Farm Journal Corn College in Bloomington, Ill.
Congratulations to Ryan Kirby!
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