FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 21, 2001
LATTA PRODUCERS GET A LOTTA PRAISE
(LATTA, SC)---Bothers, Ryan and Renee Coleman, of Latta, SC, were front and center stage recently at the South Carolina Pork Conference in Myrtle Beach. The sibblings were presented the Producer of the Year Award, an award presented annually to a South Carolina pork producer (or, in this case, producers) who excel in the use of new technology and production procedures.
Ryan and Renee have been in the business of farming all their lives. Ryan is 22-years-old and single. Renee is 42 and the single parent of two daughters. The brothers grew up on the family tobacco farm---land that has been carefully tended by the Coleman family since before the Civil War.
Renee helped his father run a 300-head sow farrow to finish operation until 1985. Brother Rhett built the family’s first farm with Carroll’s Foods, Inc, in 1994. Both Ryan and Renee helped out with the operation of this nine house finishing farm. In 1999, the two brothers built their own five house finishing site.
In addition to the SC Pork Producer of the Year, the SC Pork Board presented a Special Award at this year’s conference to Ann Wilson of Columbia for her outstanding contributions to the pork industry and to all of agriculture in the state. She has worked with the SC Department of Agriculture for almost 27 years. During that time much of her efforts have been spent in conjunction with the SC Pork Board.
For more information about the awards presented by the SC Pork Board at their annual conference, call Gerry Bonnette at 803-734-2218.