Brownfield Awards

Chuck Zimmerman

Brownfield NetworkThe folks at the Brownfield Network have several announcements.

Andrew McCreaTo start with Andrew McCrea just won his 5th Oscar in Agriculture award, which was presented at last week’s NAFB convention. I remember Andrew coming to the Brownfield Network before he was a big time award winner. Congratulations Andrew! Andrew produces American Countryside and can also be found on his own website. McCrea’s work on a four part series for coverage of the constitutionality of the Beef Checkoff case for the American Countryside program earned him his fifth Oscar in Agriculture. The series included a variety of interviews compiled of different views on the checkoff issues, including lawyers and livestock producers.

Also winning an award last week was Josh St. Peters. Josh received the NAFB South Region Horizon Award which was established to recognize young broadcasters with less than five years of membership that show promise in the industry. So
Tom Steevers & Josh St. PetersJosh, you are showing some “promise.” That is encouraging, congratulations to you.

Wait, we’re not done. Tom Steever won the NAFB South Region Farm Broadcaster of the Year Award. Steever was also elected South Region Vice President during the convention. He has attended every NAFB Convention since 1976 either as an associate or voting member. Steever served as North Central Region Vice President from 1984-1985. I’m glad this was pointed out since it clearly make Tom much older than me. Congrats Tom.

I’ve also been meaning to point you to the Brownfield Blog if I haven’t before. Young and promising award winner, Josh St. Peters is taking care of this duty. “Our goal with the Brownfield Blog is to give readers some insight into what’s going on behind the stories on the website and on the network. With our blog, we can post all kinds of information on farming and agribusiness,” explains Brownfield Farm Broadcaster Josh St. Peters.

Okay Brownfield, now I’m caught up.

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