STATE FAIR CELEBRATES CYNDI YOUNG’S AGRICULTURE SERVICE

Cyndi Young-Puyear, of Brownfield Ag News, was named the 2008 Service to Agriculture Award recipient at the Illinois State Fair Agriculture Day Luncheon on August 12. The award is sponsored by Farm Credit Services of Illinois.

Cyndi grew up on her family’s Scott County farm near Winchester. She was a youth member of 4-H and FFA and served as the Illinois State Beef Queen. After earning an agriculture education degree with an animal science emphasis from Western Illinois University, Cyndi began her farm broadcasting career at WJIL in Jacksonville in 1985. She also worked for Oklahoma Agri-net and served as farm director for WTAX in Springfield. In 1997, she joined Brownfield as Regional Farm Director and was named Farm Broadcaster of the Year by the National Association of Farm Broadcasters (NAFB). She was promoted by Brownfield to farm director and manager in 2001.

Cyndi is a renowned public speaker in the agriculture industry who has traveled throughout the United States and to 15 other counties. She is the author of a weekly column in Illinois AgriNews and is currently vice president for the NAFB Foundation. Cyndi and her husband, Jim Puyear, reside at Rocking P Ranch near Jamestown, Missouri, where they own a herd of registered Simmental cattle.

Brownfield provides commodity and livestock reports, agribusiness news, and other feature programming to 280 radio stations across the Midwest. They also produce “Agriculture Today”, an electronic newsletter that provides a daily snapshot of agriculture news. Brownfield also provides feature news, markets, weather, event coverage, and ag-related features on-line at www.brownfieldagnews.com.

Farm Credit Services of Illinois is a farmer owned and directed agriculture lending cooperative. With $2.2 billion of assets and 165 employees in 21 branch offices, they provide competitive and flexible farm financing and crop insurance expertise to 8,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural landowners in Illinois’ southern 60 counties. As part of the U.S. Farm Credit System, their mission is to provide financial capital and financial services to agriculture and Rural America.

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