Wiggins receives Alabama Farmers Federation’s highest award – ‘a deep thinker and a man of even deeper faith’

As a devastating local drought, debilitating interest rates, and declining commodity prices hit farms across Alabama in the early 1980’s, Ricky Wiggins found himself in the crosshairs of the agricultural disruption that closed farms across the country. One evening during that difficult time period, Wiggins said that he turned to God for guidance. “I was sitting in my office one night, and it was fixing to happen,” said Wiggins, now 73. “I was crying and praying and figuring. I finally said, ‘Lord. Thank you. I don’t know where I’ll be down the road, but wherever I am, I will be a better man, a