2017 Farmer of the Year

A 3rd generation farmer, Wade Hodges loves it

Wade C. Hodges, 2017 Statesboro-Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce Farmer of the Year, oversees the loading of a cotton crop in one of his fields off Jimmy Rigdon Road Tuesday. Hodges is a 3rd generation farmer, who farms corn, peanuts and cotton.

112117 HODGES FARMER OF YEAR Web — Wade C. Hodges, 2017 Statesboro-Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce Farmer of the Year, oversees the loading of a cotton crop in one of his fields off Jimmy Rigdon Road Tuesday. Hodges is a 3rd generation farmer, who farms corn, peanuts and cotton.

Fluffy white cotton explodes over 3,000 acres of farmland tended by Wade C. Hodges III, and he is humbled by the fact that each plant starts with a single seed. The recently named 2017 Statesboro-Bulloch Chamber of Commerce Farmer of the Year, Hodges farms because he loves it. Having grown up immersed in the life, the third-generation Bulloch County farmer grows row crops.

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