Okolona’s Wingfields named Clark County Farm Family of the Year

ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas — The Matt and Kim Wingfield Family, the owners of Red Dirt Farms and residents of the Okolona community has been chosen as Clark County’s 2025 Family of the Year, representatives of Farm Credit, the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, and Clark County Farm Bureau announced. The organizations are chief sponsors of the program in Clark County.

The Wingfields, along with their children Jacklyn and Bella, have a sizable cattle operation and multiple breeder houses on their 2,820 acres in the Okolona area. The family also owns and operates a timber plantation in which they harvest and replant a considerable amount of timber.

As the Clark County Farm Family of the Year, the Wingfield family will join 74 other county farm families in vying for district and state recognition as the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year. The Arkansas Farm Family of the Year will be announced in December at a banquet at the Wyndham Riverfront in North Little Rock.

First established in 1947, Arkansas’ Farm Family of the Year program is the longest running effort of its kind in the nation. The program sponsors are Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, Ag Heritage Farm Credit Services, Farm Credit Services of Western Arkansas, Farm Credit Mid-South and Arkansas Farm Bureau with the cooperation of the program partners Arkansas Press Association, University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, USDA Rural Development, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Arkansas Department of Workforce Education and the Arkansas Agriculture Department.