Wendell Brannen was featured speaker for Friday’s Agribusiness Partner of the Year luncheon, but little did he know he would be the award recipient as well.Brannen spoke about the joys and pitfalls of farming Friday during the event that brought Farm City Week to a close. The week’s events, including a Farm City Week breakfast Monday during which the Clarence Prince family was named Farm Family of the Year, were sponsored by Farm Bureau and the Statesboro-Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce.As he spoke during the meeting, Brannen, co-owner of Tillman and Brannen Farm Supply, he said he feels “truly blessed to have grown up on a farm.“There’s something about the integrity of farm families that is very special to me,” he said.He spoke about how former president Bill Clinton’s farm bill caused farmers to be “thrown out to the mercy of the world” and how farm subsidies are necessary. People who are not involved in farming fail to realize the necessity of subsidizing and that “other countries have been subsidizing agriculture for years.”People not in the know are unaware of the extreme costs of farming.