{ "document_id": 13961, "page": 6, "width_pt": 1224, "height_pt": 792, "rotation": 0, "pipeline_version": "paddleocr-vl-1.6+paul-48", "engine": "paddleocr_vl", "source_run_id": 14141, "item_count": 18, "counts_by_type": { "figure": 2, "footer": 3, "footnote": 1, "heading": 1, "text": 11 }, "build_ms": 2, "items": [ { "id": "p6.1", "order": 1, "type": "figure", "bbox": { "l": 0, "t": 792, "r": 608.88, "b": 5.28 }, "text": "", "attrs": { "block_label": "image", "embedded_text": "a\n9 AgKnowledge | 2023" }, "children": [ { "id": "p6.1.1", "order": 2, "type": "heading", "bbox": { "l": 135.12, "t": 206.88, "r": 459.84, "b": 97.92 }, "text": "Small Farmer\nof the Year", "attrs": { "block_label": "paragraph_title" }, "level": 3 }, { "id": "p6.1.2", "order": 3, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 61.2, "t": 88.32, "r": 532.56, "b": 66.48 }, "text": "David Miller likes farming—that's why it's the lifestyle for him" } ] }, { "id": "p6.2", "order": 4, "type": "figure", "bbox": { "l": 673.68, "t": 738.24, "r": 1178.88, "b": 420 }, "text": "", "attrs": { "block_label": "image" } }, { "id": "p6.3", "order": 5, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 670.8, "t": 368.64, "r": 829.2, "b": 302.64 }, "text": "D avoid Miller wakes up in the morning and goes to check on his girls. His “girls” are the 30 cows he raises on his 130-acre farm in Lincoln County, Kentucky." }, { "id": "p6.4", "order": 6, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 670.56, "t": 290.64, "r": 833.28, "b": 225.36 }, "text": "\"When I get out of bed, I hit it and go after it,\" Miller said. \"I don't go after it in a negative way, I go after it in a positive way. If you're not going to be positive, don't do it.\"" }, { "id": "p6.5", "order": 7, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 671.04, "t": 212.4, "r": 831.6, "b": 68.64 }, "text": "In 2022, Miller was named Kentucky State University’s Small Farmer of the Year. He now farms on the same land he was raised on, where he helped his father farm along with his four brothers. As a father himself, he didn’t insist his two sons work with him on the farm—but being forced to work on his father’s farm worked out for him. Farming was and continues to be “the lifestyle for me,” he said.\n\nMiller used to raise tobacco but called it “a headache.” He transitioned away from tobacco and is happy to now run a cow-calf operation." }, { "id": "p6.6", "order": 8, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 843.6, "t": 304.08, "r": 999.6, "b": 277.44 }, "text": "“I like my cattle operation,” he said. “I don’t want nothing else.”" }, { "id": "p6.7", "order": 9, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 844.08, "t": 264.24, "r": 999.12, "b": 237.6 }, "text": "He treats the cows like his pets, and it pays off." }, { "id": "p6.8", "order": 10, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 843.36, "t": 225.6, "r": 1006.56, "b": 159.84 }, "text": "“I walk to them, I talk to them, I sing to them, I play with them,” Miller said. “I can stand in the barn; they can be five miles, five feet from me. I can call them, and they come right up to me.”" }, { "id": "p6.9", "order": 11, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 843.12, "t": 147.36, "r": 1002, "b": 68.64 }, "text": "Miller got involved with Kentucky State University through Edwin Chavous, Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator. Chavous nominated Miller for Small Farmer of the Year.\n\n“Mr. Miller has been an excellent role model as a cow-calf operation as a small farmer in Kentucky,” Chavous said." }, { "id": "p6.10", "order": 12, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 1015.2, "t": 316.56, "r": 1170.72, "b": 225.36 }, "text": "Miller has volunteered with Kentucky State's Fourth Wednesday Beef Cattle Workshop, as well as attending other Kentucky State programming like Third Thursday Thing and the Small, Limited-Resource, Minority Farmers Conference." }, { "id": "p6.11", "order": 13, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 1015.2, "t": 212.4, "r": 1173.12, "b": 147.12 }, "text": "“KSU has been a lot of help,” Miller said. Kentucky State has offered him a lot of learning opportunities and has taught him “how to do, how not to do” various farming tasks." }, { "id": "p6.12", "order": 14, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 1014.96, "t": 134.88, "r": 1171.68, "b": 68.16 }, "text": "Over the years, Miller has kidded with Chavous, asking when he'll be Small Farmer of the Year. When Chavous called to tell him it was him, Miller thought he was joking at first." }, { "id": "p6.13", "order": 15, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 42.96, "t": 30.48, "r": 150.24, "b": 17.52 }, "text": "9 AgKnowledge | 2023", "attrs": { "block_label": "footer" } }, { "id": "p6.14", "order": 16, "type": "footnote", "bbox": { "l": 671.28, "t": 414.24, "r": 1155.6, "b": 383.52 }, "text": "OPPOSITE: David Miller poses on his farm in Lincoln County, Kentucky, on Oct. 18, 2022. | Photo by Jonathan Palmer\nTOP: David Miller, center, receives the Small Farmer of the Year award from Edwin Chavous, left, and Dr. Allison Young at the Small, Limited-Resource, Minority Farmers Conference banquet at Capital Plaza Hotel in Franfort, Kentucky, on Nov. 16, 2022. | Photo by Kris Chappel", "attrs": { "block_label": "vision_footnote" } }, { "id": "p6.15", "order": 17, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 1073.28, "t": 29.04, "r": 1161.6, "b": 18.48 }, "text": "AgKnowledge | 2023", "attrs": { "block_label": "footer" } }, { "id": "p6.16", "order": 18, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 1167.36, "t": 29.04, "r": 1181.76, "b": 18.96 }, "text": "10", "attrs": { "block_label": "number" } } ], "excluded_furniture": { "first": [], "last": [] } }