Florida Farm Bureau Federation honored Southeast Agnet founders Gary Cooper and Robin Loftin-Cooper during the 66th annual meeting last week in Daytona Beach. They are pictured here with FFBF president John Hoblick.

The Coopers received the “Ag Journalists of the Year” award for outstanding coverage of agriculture.

Gary and Robin are our former business partners in Florida. I also do regular programming for them on Southeast Agnet – and Chuck and I both used to work with Gary at Florida Farm Bureau. Once upon a time, I won their communicator of the year award (I think that’s what it was called) when we started the network with Gary. In fact, it is all Gary’s fault we are even in agricultural communications today. Gary hired me as an intern to work at Florida Farm Bureau when I was still in college.

Congratulations to Gary and Robin!