The Fabulous Farm Babe and I spoke about what NAFB is doing in Washington, DC this week just prior to their board meeting. We’re sure here at an interesting time when you consider issues like swine flu, animal rights activism and all the legislative activity that will impact farming in America.

Over the next couple days I’ll be covering the meeting which gets kicked off with a lunch sponsored by the United Soybean Board. Then this afternoon we’ll be talking with representatives of many farm groups at the Issues Forum.

So getting back to Pam Jahnke, seen here in the board meeting that’s taking place as I post this, she tells us about the NAFB Washington Watch program. She says this is a great opportunity for farm broadcasters to get face to face with policy makers and obtain good programming material to take back home. I brought up the “T” word and Pam admits that a lot of people are looking to Twitter these days for information. She’s on Facebook now but still hasn’t created a Twitter account. I’ll be glad to help her with that though.

This week’s program ends with music from the Podsafe Music Network. It’s a song titled, “My Babe”, by The Brymers. I hope you enjoy it and thank you for listening.

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