KEY TAKEAWAYS: East Feliciana Parish rancher Macy Rushing earned the 2026 Louisiana Farm Bureau Young Farm Woman of the Year award. Her TikTok account showcasing daily cattle ranch life has attracted nearly 20,000 followers in just over a year. Rushing and her husband operate a first-generatio n cattle ranch in Kentwood. She hopes her social media presence will inspire more young people, especially girls, to pursue careers in agriculture.   Macy Rushing remembers her brother encouraging her to create social media posts about her daily life as a cattle rancher in Louisiana’s East Feliciana Parish. “I told him, ‘There is nothing interesting about my day,'” said Rushing, who works with her husband, Matt, on their farm. But just over a year later, Macy Rushing’s TikTok videos (@macydrush) of her feeding and tending cattle on the couple’s Kentwood ranch has generated an audience of nearly 20,000 followers. Rushing has earned the 2026 Louisiana Farm Bureau Young Farm Woman of the Year for her work on the ranch and her videos promoting agriculture. She was presented the award June 18 at the Farm Bureau Convention in New Orleans. “It means all the hard work. sweat and tears were all worth it,” Rushing said in an interview with USA Today Network. She said the recognition was especially meaningful because the couple is a first-generation farm family. “We didn’t grow up in ag; we were invited into it, and the farming community and its support has been amazing,” Rushing said. “Seeing something go from nothing to something gives you the fire to do anything,” she said. Rushing’s earnest, authentic videos provide viewers with an unfiltered look at daily farm life, from Macy’s signature jalopy of a feed truck with a broken door to her teasing complaints about husband Matt. “People ask me what kind of tripod I use; I use a block and a brick (to prop up her phone),” she said in an interview with This Week in Louisiana Agriculture. Rushing said she is still surprised my her growing number of followers and their interest. She said someone approached her in New Orleans and said, “Are you the girl with the broken feed truck door?” Rushing said she hopes her videos will inspire others to choose agriculture. “I want little girls to know that they can run a farm someday,” she said. Greg Hilburn covers state politics for the USA TODAY Network of Louisiana. Follow him on Twitter @GregHilburn1. This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: Louisiana farm lady’s viral TikTok videos give glimpse of ranch life Reporting by Greg Hilburn, Shreveport Times / Shreveport Times USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect ...read more read less