Texan receives Cotton Grower's annual Achievement Award.

Steve Verett (center) of Verett Farms in Rails, TX, receives the 2005 Cotton Grower Magazine Achievement Award. Presenting the award at the annual Cotton Grower Luncheon at the Beltwide Cotton Conference in San Antonio, TX, are (L to R) Frank Giles, Cotton Grower; Jim Zimmer, Monsanto; Steve Verett; Trent Haggard, CaseIH, and Frank Maxcy, Cotton Grower.

Verett Farms covers 4,000 acres, about 2,500 of it in cotton. He is also executive vice president with the Plains Cotton Growers Association.

The award, now in its 39th year, recognizes and honors growers who are outstanding innovators, sound stewards of the land, and those who are leaders in their communities and in the cotton industry. The program is supported by Case IH and Monsanto.