Cyndi Young

Saturday, August 2nd at 7:00 p.m.

Cyndi Young is Farm Director and Manager of Brownfield Ag News.

While growing up on the family farm near Winchester, Illinois, Cyndi was involved in 4-H and FFA. Her broadcast career began at WJIL, Jacksonville, Illinois, on April Fools Day in 1985. As an Agriculture Education major with an emphasis in animal science at Western Illinois University, her goal was to promote the beef industry. A local farm broadcaster persuaded this past State Beef Queen to interview for a position at his radio station.

During her farm broadcast tenure, Cyndi worked for Oklahoma Agrinet and was Farm Director for WTAX Springfield, Illinois. She joined Brownfield as Regional Farm Director in 1997, and in October of 2001, was promoted to Farm Director and Manager.

Cyndi has traveled extensively throughout the United States and to 15 different countries covering agriculture for Midwestern farmers. Her work has earned her dozens of honors from agriculture groups and associations. A member of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting for 20 years, Cyndi was recognized as Farm Broadcaster of the Year for the nation in 1997, and currently serves as Vice President for the NAFB Foundation.

Cyndi pens a popular weekly column in Illinois AgriNews and is a well-known public speaker. A partner with her husband, Jim Puyear, in Rocking P Ranch near Jamestown, Missouri, Cyndi enjoys spending time at home with the purebred Simmental cattle herd. She also enjoys gardening, deer hunting and dancing.

Brownfield, founded in 1972, includes America's largest agricultural radio network, providing commodity and livestock reports, agribusiness news and other feature programming to 280 radio stations across the Midwest. Brownfieldagnews.com  features news, markets, weather, event coverage and ag-related features. Brownfield also offers "Agriculture Today," a daily email newsletter providing readers with a snapshot of what is happening in agriculture.