PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) presented W&S Ranch Inc. the BIF Commercial Producer of the Year Award June 23 during the group’s annual symposium and convention in Des Moines, Iowa.

Progressive Publishing is pleased to introduce Kate James as one of its summer 2021 editorial interns. James began work at the beginning of June and will write feature stories and news articles for Progressive Cattle.

Sydney Wilkinson works as an instructor of animal science and livestock judging coach at Oklahoma Panhandle State University. Although she doesn’t work on the family ranch full time, she still considers it an integral part of her life and goes home as often as possible to help out.

Terryn Drieling: Transitioning from feedlot management to cow-calf ranching

Terryn Drieling grew up on a small feedlot and always wanted to be part of the ag industry in some way.

Susan Russell and her husband, Curtis, own and operate Reflected R Ranch near Sugar City, Colorado. She grew up on her family’s seedstock cattle and grain operation in south-central Kansas and has been part of the beef industry her whole life.

Sarah Kuschel raises beef cattle and horses, grows alfalfa and corn, and is raising three children with her husband, Miles, on their fourth-generation ranch in Sebeka, Minnesota.