Sad to share the news that longtime farm broadcaster Jerry Passer died over the weekend. He would have been 79 years old today, born on Feb 17, 1943, in Wells, MN.
Passer was a veteran of the US Navy where he served as a corpsman for 4.5 years in Washington D.C. at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. After his time in the service, Passer joined KBEW Radio in Blue Earth, Minnesota, in 1967. From there, he moved on to spend time at KATE Radio in Albert Lea and Austin, Minnesota. He joined NAFB at KQAQ Radio in 1972 as an associate member, working as both a broadcaster and doing sales.
In 1973 when he became farm editor at WMT Radio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and stayed for the next 18 years. After leaving WMT in 1991, Passer continued in farm broadcasting at KOEL Radio in Oelwein, Iowa, and Brownfield Ag News. He retired from Brownfield in June 2017.