COLUMBIA -- Gordon Kempf of Kansas City has been named Missouri Tree Farmer of the Years.
Kempf is president of the Northern Nut Growers Association and operates an 111-acre tree farm in Bates County.
Also honored during the recent Tree Farm Day in the program at the University of Missouri was Southeast Missouri Tree Farmer of the Year, A. C. King, of Poplar Bluff.
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