North Carolina Service To Agriculture Award winners since 1975:
| 2011 | Brent Jackson, Jackson Farming Company, Clement, NC - Sampson County |
| 2010 | Jo Ann Stroud, Duplin County |
| 2009 | Dr. George Silver, Goldsboro, NC |
| 2008 | Joe Landino |
| 2007 | Wendell Holmes Murphy, Murphy Family Farms |
| 2006 | Deborah Johnson, Executive Director of the NC Pork Council |
| 2005 | Senator Charlie Albertson |
| 2004 | Ronald Jackson, Clinton Truck & Tractor, Inc. - Clinton, NC |
| 2003 | Robert E. Strayhorn, Shady Oaks Farm |
| 2002 | Neal Stamey, Canton |
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| 2001 | Jim Hudson, Southeast Farm Press |
| 2000 | Allen L. McMurray, Location Manager UAP/Carolinas, Newland, NC |
| 1999 | M. Scott Whitford, Pamlico County |
| 1998 | Mr. Earl B. Hendrix, Raeford, NC |
| 1997 | Mr. John Spence, Greenville, NC |
| 1996 | Farm Credit Services in North Carolina |
| 1995 | Mr. Gene Maples, Moore County, Executive Director, Turfgrass Council of North Carolina, Inc. |
| 1994 | Mr. Jack Messer |
| 1993 | Mr. B.F. Nesbitt, Farmer, Fletcher, NC |
| 1992 | Mr. Marshall Wood Grant, Farmer and Agricultural Leader, Garysburg, NC |
| 1991 | Mr. James E. Christopher, Chairman and CEO Concord Farms, Concord, NC |
| 1989 | Mr. Richard Reich, RJR Nabisco, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 1988 | Mr. Elijah J. Tyson |
| 1986 | Mr. Morris L. McGough, Asheville, NC |
| 1985 | Mr. Vernon G. James, NC House of Representatives, Elizabeth City, NC |
| 1984 | Mr. J.D. "Jerry" Shiffert, Manager, Agricultural Program Division, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 1983 | Mr. Frank Boyette, Southern National Bank, Lumberton, NC, Robeson County |
| 1982 | Mr. L.F. "Bud" Amburn, Chairman, State Advisory Committee, Chowan County, NC |
| 1981 | Mr. Harold Hardison, Lenoir, NC |
| 1980 | Mr. Liston B. Ramsey, Madision County |
| 1979 | Mr. John Sledge, President, N.C. Farm Bureau, Martin County |
| 1978 | Mr. Oren Starnes, Monroe, NC & Mr. Hervey Evans, Jr., Laurinburg, NC |
| 1977 | Mr. Ray S. Wilkinson & Mr. Vern Strickland, WRAL-TV farm news, Wake County |
| 1976 | Mr. Norfleet Suggs |
| 1975 | Mr. George Wood, Camden County |
Please send comments and suggestions to John Dorner.
Last updated on 6/21/11.
