Lynn Doran (door-RAN) won the Illinois Farm Bureau's Young Leader Discussion Meet competition last month in Chicago. Now she'll be facing national competition at the American Farm Bureau convention in Phoenix. Doran says she inherited what she calls her "gift of gab" from her late father, who passed away when she was just 14 years old. They farmed in Wisconsin, and her dad also served as a county Farm Bureau president;

 

 

Doran discusses one of the issues she could be asked to address (food labeling) during the national competition later this week in Phoenix.

 

 

Doran makes artisan cheese and helps milk goats on a farm in Champaign County. She'll be competing with other young farmers and ag professionals who have won similar competitions in their states.