Here’s a call out for support of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Foundation. You can donate an item to the annual auction at the NAFB Convention or just send cash! Generous donations in past years have helped provide financial support and educational opportunities for young people in pursuit of careers in agricultural communications. Each year, six college students – …
NAFB Announces 2010 Hall of Famers
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting will honor two of its finest at the Thursday night Honors Celebration Banquet during the 66th Annual NAFB Convention, November 10-12 in Kansas City. Taylor Brown and Gene Millard have been selected for induction into the NAFB Hall of Fame this year. Taylor Brown, owner and president of Northern Broadcasting System, Inc. in Billings, …
NAFB Luncheon Scores a Touchdown
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. …
AgriTalk Stalking
We attend so many of the same meetings as our good friends with AgriTalk that we often joke that we are stalking each other! Here is what we like to call “the obligatory AgriTalk photo” from the 23rd annual Ethanol Conference and Trade Show in Kansas City yesterday, where AgriTalk host, the perpetually youthful Mike Adams (a granddaddy for the …
NAFB Member Lyle Romine Passes Away
Some sad news to pass along from the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. Long-time Farm Broadcaster Lyle Romine of Fargo died this morning of cancer. He was 59 years old. Lyle was Farm Director of the Fargo based American Ag Network, a regional network serving forty radio stations in North Dakota South Dakota and Montana. Lyle was born and raised …
NAFB Foundation Scholarship Recipients
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Foundation just announced their 2010 scholarship recipients. The Foundation is pleased to announce the 2010 selections: Taylor James, Kansas State University, Glenn Kummerow Scholarship, $5,000 Denise Donley, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, $4,000 Julie Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $4,000 The NAFB Foundation Board of Directors would like to congratulate these students. In addition to their …
First Annual NAFB Lake Girls Retreat
The 1st Annual NAFB Lake Girls Retreat was held this past weekend at the lovely home of the incomparable Sara Wyant and Al Johnson of Agri-Pulse. Some of you may remember that a group of gals who are NAFB old-timers got together and bought the weekend at Al and Sara’s up for bid at the NAFB Foundation auction last fall. …
Visiting With NAFB
Here’s the Happy St. Patty’s Day crew of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. I visited today and really appreciate them ordering up a beautiful sunny day for my drive. The photo was actually taken yesterday and I talked Jennifer out of it. Pictured are Stacia Cudd, Mark Vail, Susan Tally and Jennifer Saylor (not picture is Rose Marie Lawrence). …
NAFB at Commodity Classic
Members of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting got together for their traditional Commodity Classic photo this evening during the media reception that was sponsored by New Holland. Our good buddy Gene Hemphill, New Holland, was on hand as we welcomed new Executive Director for NAFB, Mark Vail, who is in his first week on the job. More photos have …
New NAFB Leadership
Starting March 1, the National Association of Farm Broadcasting will have a new Executive Director. He’s Mark Vail and many of you know him from his career in farm broadcasting both on the microphone and in management. In fact, Mark was just serving again on the NAFB board! So they’ve got a new staff leader with strong roots in the …