Listed below are awards awarded in 2026 for their achievements in 2025.

MEDIA AWARDS

• Category 1
  Surry County Fair
  
• Category 2
  Lee County
  
• Category 3
  Wayne County
  
  
  

YOUTH:

Youth awards were suspended for the 2025 year.

• Category 1
  
  
  
• Category 2
  
  
  
• Category 3
  
  
  
  
  
  

AGRICULTURAL:

Agricultural Awards were suspended for 2025 fair year.

• Category 1
  
  
  
• Category 2
  
  
  
• Category 3
  
  
  

INNOVATION:

Category 1

• Alleghany County Fair

• Brunswick County Fair

Caldwell County Fair

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Chowan County Fair

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Drexel County Fair

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Lenoir County Fair

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Stokes County Fair

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• Category 2
• Columbus County Fair
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• Lee County Fair
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• Pitt County Fair
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• Wilson County Fair
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• Category 3
  Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair
  Wayne Regional Agricultural Fair
  

• Cabarrus County Fair
  

IMAGE:

The Image Award was suspended for the 2025 Fair Season

• Category 1
  
  
  
• Category 2
  
  
  

• Category 3
  
  

HOLMES-MCBRIDE AWARD:

• Letrice Midgett, NC State Fair
  
  
  

Past Recipients of the Holmes-McBride Award