The star-studded NAFB Night of Honors paid tribute Thursday night to several who represent excellence in farm broadcasting. The Dix Harper Meritorious Service Award was presented to the recently retired John Vasicheck of Red River Farm Network, who has been a member of NAFB since 1994 and has had not one, not two – but THREE NAFB past presidents on …
Secretary Vilsack Visits NAFB
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack once again paid a visit to the nation’s farm broadcasters at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting annual meeting in Kansas City where he commmented on a number of issues important to farmers and ranchers. The secretary led with USDA’s announcement today on record growth of U.S. agricultural exports in 2011. “I’m pleased to report that …
NAFB Foundation Awards Scholarships
Three aspiring agricultural communicators were awarded scholarships Wednesday from the NAFB Foundation to continue their education. One of the three was unable to attend the Foundation awards luncheon. He is Nathan Vickers, a graduate student at Columbia University in New York. Nathan is from a southwest Missouri farm family and received his undergraduate degree from Truman State University in Kirksville …
Trends in the Media Landscape
Mark Ramsey of Mark Ramsey Media offered his insights for agricultural media during the general professional improvement session on Wednesday morning at the NAFB convention in Kansas City. Mark believes that as broadcasters continue to integrate digital and social media technology, it will completely redefine the meaning of radio. “The reality is, we are all media,” Mark says. “The biggest …
BASF Provides Connectivity for NAFB Meeting
The 68th Annual NAFB Convention is officially underway in Kansas City. Hundreds of broadcast council and allied industry members are already working hard in between catching up with friends we see only once a year! Our thanks to BASF for providing so much at the NAFB meeting to help farm broadcasters continue to provide “Insight for Agriculture – Every Day” …
Deadline Coming Soon for BASF Trip to Daytona 500
The white flag signifying the final lap for growers to enter the BASF Crop Protection Kixor® herbicide technology Road to DAYTONA® sweepstakes is waving. BASF is sending one lucky winner four tickets to the 54th annual DAYTONA 500® to the Feb. 25, 2012 race along with an expenses-paid three-day, two-night trip to Daytona Beach, Florida. BASF will also be awarding …
UN Kicks off International Year of Cooperatives
On the same day the world was officially proclaimed home of seven billion souls, the United Nations General Assembly officially declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives with the theme of “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World”. “This Day of 7 Billion – is not about one newborn, or even one generation,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “This is a …
Why You Should Donate to the NAFB Foundation
If you need some extra incentive to donate to the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Foundation – here it is. Make your donation of $100 or more to the NAFB Foundation, and your name will be entered in a chance to win an iPad 2 tablet! The real reason you should donate is because the NAFB Foundation helps ensure a …
John Deere Kicks Off “CAN DO” Project
John Deere is trying to build a combine out of cans. We’re talking about 300,000 cans of food here to replicate a full-sized S-Series combine in a field. It would be a world record. Kind of like what America’s farmers do every year – set new records in feeding the world. The John Deere Project ”CAN DO” combine sculpture and …
FS PARTNERS Pioneering QR Codes in the Field
FS PARTNERS in Ontario is pioneering a new use for QR codes in the field so farmers can access updated information about test plots. In case you are not yet familiar with them, QR is short for Quick Response and they are those bar code looking things you can read with a smart phone that are starting to pop up …