SETTLEMOIR RECOGNIZED
Small groups of Northeast Arkansas’ Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) young leaders chatted as they awaited the judges’ visit for Casey and Jade Simpson Farm Family selection. As they sought just a bit of shade on the especially hot day on that June afternoon, they were overheard, “He’s never met a challenge he’d walk away from,” they said, speaking of Casey Simpson. Several of those in discussion were alumni of Simpson’s Piggott Chapter of FFA, the role he found rewarding and fulfilling after being under the tutelage of Chris Ward, his own FFA adviser when Simpson was at Nettleton High School as a student.
