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Recently, I laid out 19 of the 21 Southwest Farm Press issues from this past year on my office floor. Seeing each of the faces, the families, the topics that make each issue unique, reminds me of why I love my job. What a privilege to meet producers and visit their farms, or interview specialists and ag industry folks or feature a young person from across the Southwest and tell their story.
I especially enjoy capturing those people in photographs or video. I love how a photo gives the written word a face. Photos are powerful storytellers.
Shelley E. Huguley
Some of my favorites from 2020? Emily Branson. She s the college-aged artist featured in the Aug. 6 issue. I traveled to the Texas Rolling Plains to interview two producers about their 2020 cotton crop and was introduced to Emily after I left the first farm, headed to the second. Emily was in downtown Roby painting a cotton mural on the side of her parent s building as
Shelley E. Huguley
2018- Western Peanut Growers Association Executive Director Robbie Blount, left, and Tony Dill, president, at the Southwest Council of Agriculture luncheon.
Weekly, Tony served as the leader of Prayer & Share at the facility. There were many times he was the only volunteer who showed up to facilitate this program, writes Jim Rudd Unit Chaplain Flora Kynard in a letter to employees after Tony passed.
Kynard went on to write, Thomas Gale once said, A pessimist, they say, sees the glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as being half full. But a volunteer sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty. Tony Dill was one such volunteer.