Cyndi Young

With Memorial Day in the rearview mirror and schools in my area closed until fall, we’ve shifted into a different pace of life. Not quite officially summer, but close enough that you can feel it in the long evenings and early mornings. The weather, though, hasn’t quite made up its mind, with daytime temperatures bouncing […]

Late Spring on the farm smells like hard work, sunshine, and memories. It smells like fresh-cut hay drying in the field, warm soil after an afternoon rain, leather gloves, and diesel fuel clinging to hot tractor engines. For me personally, the seasonal perfume is a mix of Deep Woods Off and sunscreen, which leaves me […]

Brownfield Ag News is proud to recognize and celebrate Meghan Grebner, Broadcast Supervisor and Livestock Market Reporter, whose dedication to agricultural journalism has helped inform and connect farmers, ranchers, agribusiness professionals, and rural communities across the country. Since joining Brownfield in 2011, Grebner has become one of the most respected and recognizable voices in agricultural […]

Brownfield Ag News is proud to recognize and celebrate Meghan Grebner, Broadcast Supervisor and Livestock Market Reporter, whose dedication to

I am convinced that every generation involved in agriculture reaches a point where they look around and say, “I never imagined things would change this much in my lifetime.”

Commentary. Although Father’s Days may come and go, I will always celebrate my dad. He’s retired from farming now, but he’ll always be a farmer. For most of my life, I assumed everyone’s dad worked as hard as mine. It wasn’t until I got older that I realized what I witnessed growing up wasn’t something […]

Over the Fourth of July holiday, I found myself thinking less about the fireworks and parades and more about the people who came before us. Not so much the ones who built the Constitution, but the ones who built the country. I’m talking about the “ordinary” Americans – the pioneers, homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, blacksmiths, coopers, railroad workers, shopkeepers, and their families who physically settled the frontier and developed the nation after it was founded.

There are numbers so big they are impossible for most of us to comprehend. Take for instance our national debt, a topic I’ve written about several times over the years. Today, the United States owes creditors about $39 trillion. It’s a figure so enormous that it’s nearly impossible to comprehend. And the number climbs every […]

I’ve spent years talking and writing about farmer stress, depression and suicide. I’ve interviewed experts, shared resources and encouraged conversations about mental health in agriculture. Many of us have had neighbors, friends, family or acquaintances take their own lives. But nothing prepared me for the news that a 13-year-old farm kid in a nearby close-knit […]

Commentary. Families across America are getting ready for the Semiquincentennial Celebration. This may be the only time I refer to our amazing country’s 250th anniversary as a semiquincentennial because it’s hard to spell and even harder to say! No matter what you call it, Fourth of July cookouts are going to cost a little more […]