Indiana's River Friendly Farmer Award Program

Since 1999, key conservation and agricultural organizations have sponsored the River Friendly Farmer (RFF) Program. The statewide initiative recognizes farmers, who through good production management practices helps keep Indiana’s rivers, lakes and streams clean.

Click here for the River Friendly Farmer brochure>>

Right: 2009 River Friendly Farmer Award recipients pose after the ceremony on August 19 with Lt. Governor Becky Skillman (stage row center, and Don Villwock, Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. President, stage center right (blue shirt). NRCS State Conservationist Jane Hardisty is stage right behind Greg Witkamp who is kneeling. On the stage left is Chuck Hibberd, Director, Purdue Cooperative Extension Service (beside the American flag); Nola Gentry, Chair, State Soil Conservation Board and Anne Hazlett, Director, Indiana State Department of Agriculture. Front row left is Paula Baldwin, President, Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (IASWCD); and Jennifer Boyle Warner, IASWCD Executive Director. >>Click here for a high resolution copy of this photo.

2010 River Friendly Farmer award recipients will be honored next year during a statewide ceremony on Farmers Day at the Indiana State Fair.

• Click here for a list of the 2009 River Friendly Farmer award recipients>>
• Click here for the news release and photos of our 2009 award winners>>
• Check in January 2010 for the next RFF application
  

River Friendly Farmer Award Program sponsors include the:

• Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, and our 92 county Soil and Water Conservation Districts
• Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc.,
• Indiana State Department of Agriculture Division of Soil Conservation
• Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, and the
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.