Veteran farmers, innovators, marketers, industry leaders are all apt descriptions of the 27th Class of High Cotton winners.
These producers, recognized annually by Farm Press and The Cotton Foundation, are honored for growing quality, sustainable U.S. cotton.
The 2021 honorees, nominated and selected from across the Cotton Belt, are as follows: Southeast- Jerry Lee Hamill, Enfield, N.C.; Mid-South- Doug Scott, Sikeston, Mo.; Southwest- Robbie Robbins, Altus, Okla.; and Western- Hansen Ranches, San Joaquin Valley, Ca.
Success factors
This year s High Cotton winners credit crop rotation, technology, field variety trials, and soil health management, along with their families and employees for their success.
Jerry Lee Hamill of Enfield, N.C. is the 2021 High Cotton winner for the Southeast. Jerry Hamill has been extremely successful and continues to produce bountiful cotton crops in a very efficient, sustainable manner.
Jerry Hamill has been successfully and profitably producing cotton in North Carolina for more 52 years so he must be doing something right.
That’s one clear take away from the many cotton industry peers who nominated Hamill for the 2021 High Cotton Award for the Southeast; he does all he can to produce the best crops he can with the goal of perfection. His peers know that Hamill does things right, which has been the key to his success in both the good years and lean years.