Source: GREENVILLE DAILY REFLECTOR , 3/6/17

Brandon Batten, a sixth-generation farmer in the Johnston County town of Four Oaks, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Tobacco Farm Life Museum Innovative Young Farmer of the Year award by the Farm Credit Associations of North Carolina. Batten is a partner in his family’s business, Triple B Farms Inc., producing flue-cured tobacco, corn, soybeans, wheat and Bermuda hay on 600 acres, along with 40 head of Angus-mix beef cattle. He is a 2008 North Carolina State University graduate, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biological and agricultural engineering. He also completed his master’s degree in agricultural engineering in 2010 at NC State. …

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