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Story County family farmer named 2009 Joslin award winnerIowa Adam Gibson of Nevada received the 2009 Bob Joslin Excellence in Ag Award at the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in Des Moines on Dec. 3. The award honors a young farmer who demonstrates outstanding leadership qualities in Farm Bureau, agriculture and his/her community. As the Joslin award winner, Gibson receives a plaque, a $750 gift card from Growmark and expense-paid trips to the American Farm Bureau annual meeting in Seattle and the Growmark annual meeting in Chicago. Gibson works for Couser Cattle Co., a diversified crop and cattle farm in Nevada. He also rents 40 acres of farmland for row-crop production. While he didn't grow up on a farm, Gibson developed a passion for agriculture early in life. That enthusiasm was nurtured by his work with local farmers during childhood and college and by visiting his grandparent's farm in northeast Iowa. Gibson started working part-time for Nevada farmer Bill Couser in college and was hired full-time after graduating with a degree in ag studies from Iowa State University. A few years later, Gibson became involved in Iowa Farm Bureau's young farmer program. Since then, he has taken an active leadership role in the state and county Farm Bureau. Gibson has served on the Story County Farm Bureau board for nine years, including stints as vice president (two years), young farmer chair (eight years) and president (current). At the state level, Gibson's leadership roles include young farmer committee chair and vice chair, resolutions committee member and Speaker Corps member.
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