[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 63 (Friday, May 7, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S5043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                             HUGH ROBINSON

 Mr. TALENT. Mr. President, I wish to honor Hugh Robinson of 
southeast Missouri, who is retiring today after a long career in farm 
broadcasting. I am honored to share his successes with my colleagues.
  Hugh followed a path from Washington, DC to Missouri. Growing up in 
Washington and graduating from Anacostia High School, Hugh has been 
interested and involved in agriculture most of his life. He knew about 
U.S. Department of Agriculture through his father, who had been an 
agricultural attache for the Foreign Agricultural Service in Sweden and 
Germany. With that experience he had the opportunity to observe farm 
and livestock operations in other countries firsthand.
  Since 1998, he has been at KBXB, where he has been the only live, 
local, farm director in southeast Missouri doing 10 reports a day, 4 
news and 6 market reports.
  He is a voting member of the National Association of Farm 
Broadcasters, and has been involved in the organization since 1978. 
Hugh has received numerous awards including: The Missouri Farm Bureau's 
Outstanding Service to Agriculture, the Missouri House of 
Representatives' Meritorious Service Award and awards from the Missouri 
Corn Growers Association, Missouri Soybean Association, as well as FFA 
and 4H.
  More than that, he is widely admired by his colleagues in farm 
broadcasting and among Missouri's agriculture leaders.
  I have known Hugh for many years now and I have always appreciated 
his diligence and great sense of humor. His interviews were tough but 
fair and you could always count on him to get the story right and to 
tell it humbly. I know our State's agriculture community will miss his 
agriculture reports. We will all miss hearing his voice on air.
  Hugh never said goodbye at the end of an interview. He always said, 
``Keep smiling.'' We are smiling with him today as he celebrates his 
retirement.

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