A luncheon in Kansas City Monday with the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) board of directors scored big with members who were able to attend.

It was a new deal for NAFB that served several purposes at once. It was held in conjunction with one of the organization’s regular board meetings, so that whole gang was already in town. It also served as a recruiting event, as non-members in the area were invited to get to know NAFB and network with both broadcast council and allied industry members. About 70 NAFB members got to just visit with each other and enjoy a nice meal with no pressure to do any interviews or conduct any other business, which was very nice.

To top it all off, we got to hear a fantastic speaker – Voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, Mitch Holthus. Mitch was a first class act who was able to relate to the NAFB members on several levels, since he is both a Kansas farm boy and a broadcaster. His inspiring, funny and endearing talk was based on the letters in the word FARM – Finish what you begin, have Accountability, be Resilient and Make a footprint.

Mitch also talked about the success of the KC Chiefs “viral videos” and he played a few of them for us, like Mitch “the Fun Inspector” at the Chief’s training camp Family Fun Day.

All in all, it was a really enjoyable luncheon and I hope they make it an annual event.