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Neal Awards” ceremony held April 26 in New York, Progressive Farmer Art Director Brent Warren and Production Manager Barry Falkner won best art direction of a magazine cover for their “future of food” collaboration for the April 2023 issue. At the 70 th annual “Jesse H.
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