Clemson Alumnus named 2018 SC Farmer of the Year

Clemson University alumnus, Kevin Yon, has been named the South Carolina winner of the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year award. What began with 100 head of cattle and borrowed equipment on 100 acres in rural Ridge Spring, South Carolina, today is listed among the country’s 25 largest purebred operations by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), reports the Clemson University Media Relations Department. Now the Yon Family Farms joins nine other individual winners as finalists for the overall award that will be announced in October at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, Georgia. Read more at www.clemson.edu.