News Release from the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.



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103 historic farm families presented Hoosier Homestead

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*INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 14, 2024)* ? Recognized for their families? longstanding commitment to agriculture, 103 Indiana farm families were presented the Hoosier Homestead Award [ [link removed] ] at the Indiana State Fair from Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director [ [link removed] ] Don Lamb.

?The Hoosier Homestead ceremony at the Indiana State Fair is a prestigious event for all involved,? said Lt. Gov. Crouch, Indiana?s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development. ?It is a true honor to celebrate these families for their work and commitment to bettering Indiana agriculture.?

To be named a Hoosier Homestead, farms must be owned by the same family for more than 100 consecutive years, and consist of 20 acres or more, or produce more than $1,000 in agricultural products per year.

Based on the age of the farm, families are eligible for three different distinctions of the Hoosier Homestead Award. They can receive the Centennial Award for 100 years, Sesquicentennial Award for 150 years or Bicentennial Award for 200 years of ownership.

?Keeping a farm operational for 100 years or more is something these families can take great pride in,? Lamb said. ?Each of the awarded family farms continues to adapt and evolve through each new generation on the farm to ensure their success.?

Since the program's inception in 1976, nearly 6,200 families have received the award. Often, a Hoosier Homestead farm is easily recognized because most recipients proudly display their awarded sign on their property.

During the ceremonies, six Indiana farms received the Bicentennial Award for 200 years of continuous ownership: the Thornburg-Caldwell-Slack family from Fayette County, the Hodges family from Morgan County, the Bridges-Royer family from Putnam County, the Dale & Donna Hartwell and Ricky W. Hartwell family from Rush County, the Bass-Rhodes family from Shelby County and the James W. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Jason M. Davidson family from Tippecanoe County.

The following list includes the August 2024 Hoosier Homestead Award recipients.

*County* *Award Name* *Award Year* *Award Type* Adams Bohnke 1897 Centennial Adams Girod 1906 Centennial Adams Kent L. Steiner 1890 Centennial Allen Dafforn 1874 Sesquicentennial Bartholomew Schroer 1886 Centennial Benton Pitts 1880 Centennial Benton Pitts 1911 Centennial Blackford Schwarzkopf 1872 Sesquicentennial Blackford Albert LeRoy Stallsmith 1904 Centennial Carroll Boyer-Garrigues 1923 Centennial Carroll George & Lois Wallace 1914 Centennial Cass Geroge E. Ferguson 1858 Sesquicentennial?? Cass VerBryck 1895 Centennial Clay Hofmann (Modesitt) 1881 Centennial Clay Hofmann (Unger) 1865 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Clinton Dean Walker 1846 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Daviess David L. Brown 1896 Centennial Daviess Joseph L. Disser 1919 Centennial Daviess Fuhrman 1918 Centennial Dearborn Murtaugh 1855 Sesquicentennial Decatur Manlief 1873 Sesquicentennial Decatur Charles & Mary Torline 1874 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Delaware Abshire 1864 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Delaware C Clifford Green 1874 Sesquicentennial Dubois Bartelt-Peters 1913 Centennial Dubois Bockting 1839 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Dubois Meyer 1920 Centennial Fayette Thornburg-Caldwell-Slack 1824 Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial Franklin Kuntz 1916 Centennial Franklin Miles Homestead Farms LLc 1874 Sesquicentennial Franklin Wessel 1858 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Fulton Applegate-Crippen-Rock 1911 Centennial Fulton Heater 1874 Sesquicentennial Fulton Shewman 1918 Centennial Grant Grindle 1852 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Greene Roudebush 1918 Centennial Hamilton Honnold-Muir 1902 Centennial Henry Kirklin 1874 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Howard Duncan Farm Legacy LLC? 1864 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Howard J & B Family Farms LLC (53 acre) 1899 Centennial Howard J & B Family Farms LLC (80 acre) 1849 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Huntington Philip Shafer 1923 Centennial Jackson Bell-Alwes-Mellencamp 1918 Centennial Jackson Claycamp 1869 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Jackson Shoemaker 1924 Centennial Jasper Gilmore-Brandenburg 1895 Centennial Jasper Wilma Jean Lehe 1922 Centennial Jasper Walter 1873 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Knox Borgmeier 1904 Centennial Kosciusko Messmore-Werstler 1923 Centennial Kosciusko Shock 1866 Centennial & Sesquicentennial LaGrange Koon-Barroquillo 1918 Centennial Madison Haines-Wood 1854 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Madison Sears 1924 Centennial Madison Thomas A. Tooley 1913 Centennial Marshall Stuntz / Bollenbacher 1869 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Miami Berglan 1874 Sesquicentennial Miami Peter Fisher-John H. Balsbaugh-Raymond E. Mussleman 1837 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Miami Gahs 1874 Sesquicentennial Miami Patricia Hardwick & Shirley Kerns 1855 Sesquicentennial Miami Kranz 1874 Sesquicentennial Miami Shewman 1869 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Montgomery Cowan 1834 Sesquicentennial Morgan Harmon & Nancy Crone 1836 Sesquicentennial Morgan Haase 1905 Centennial Morgan Hodges (1840) 1840 Sesquicentennial Morgan Hodges (1822) 1822 Bicentennial Newton Romine 1874 Sesquicentennial Noble Harvey and Simon 1862 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Noble Zimmerman 1919 Centennial Posey Papenmeier 1923 Centennial Pulaski Bergdolt 1899 Centennial Pulaski Heater 1872 Sesquicentennial Putnam Bridges-Royer 1823 Bicentennial Ripley Drockelman 1860 Sesquicentennial Ripley Miller 1910 Centennial Ripley Shorten-Volz-Miller 1917 Centennial Ripley Smith 1868 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Ripley Wilson 1923 Centennial Rush Gray-Eakin 1835 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Rush Dale & Donna Hartwell and Ricky W. Hartwell 1821 Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial Shelby Bass-Rhodes 1823 Centennial & Sesquicentennial & Bicentennial Shelby Kolkmeier 1905 Centennial Steuben Libey 1920 Centennial Steuben Levi Pocock 1868 Sesquicentennial St Joseph Michalski 1887 Centennial Sullivan Shields 1894 Centennial Tippecanoe James W. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Jason M. Davidson (Davidson) 1824 Bicentennial Tippecanoe Inskeep-McDole; Gilbert-Dilley; Tishler-Diem 1877 Centennial Tipton Meyncke 1924 Centennial Union Greenmeadow Farm Inc-Caldwell 1923 Centennial Vanderburgh Friedrich Schaefer 1869 Sesquicentennial Vigo Chickadaunce 1913 Centennial Wabash Daihl 1873 Centennial & Sesquicentennial Wabash Kirtlan 1924 Centennial Wabash Schuler 1920 Centennial Warren George K Kerner 1872 Sesquicentennial Warrick Zint 1902 Centennial Wayne F. Park Ammerman 1919 Centennial Wells Price 1919 Centennial White Diemer 1895 Centennial White George B. Kilmer 1916 Centennial White Otto Vieregge 1915 Centennial
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