Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, FALL 2020

What a long way North Carolina’s 2020 Farmer of the Year James Lamb has come since March 19, 1990. Lamb’s life changed forever that day, when his dad died suddenly.

He was no longer a farmer’s son. Instead, he was a farmer, faced with making crucial decisions every day. He was 16 and the only one of six children still at home.

How, he wondered, could he keep the family’s 75-acre farm? How could he balance his work as a student with work on the farm? And what would he do after graduating from high school?

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