Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. In this episode I have a very special guest. I haven’t talked to him recently but we did quite a bit in the early days of AgWired. He’s Harry Siemens and some of you may have heard or read his Siemens Says. He just received a very well deserved award and …
The Passing of Jim Stewart
From the KFYO website: The legendary Jim Stewart, former KFYO Ag Director and beloved voice in Texas radio, passed away yesterday, June 4, 2026. His family says that he was surrounded by loved ones and passed peacefully at home. Stewart was a voice for West Texas agriculture and joined KFYO as Farm Director in 1981. This began a remarkable run …
The Passing of Orion Samuelson
A farm broadcasting legend has passed away. WGN Radio in Chicago, his home for six decades, announced the news Monday of the passing of Orion Samuelson at age 91. Orion is a name synonymous with WGN, having spent over 60 years with the station. His career spanned from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the COVID-19 pandemic and …
Use AgNewsWire and Save Some Green
As we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this week, we invite you to consider using AgNewsWire to send your next news release and save some green. We started this service in 2005 with the intent to distribute audio with press releases – interviews, sound bites, podcasts – because it was just not being done at the time. We had to attach …
Congrats to NAFB Winners
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) handed out a ton of awards during the 82nd annual convention last week. Meghan Grebner was named Farm Broadcaster of the Year. Grebner, an 18-year media veteran, is broadcast supervisor at Brownfield Ag News, where she oversees the quality and content of the network’s news and radio programming. C.J. Miller, assistant news director …
2025 NAFB Convention Registration in Progress
The NAFB Convention is the place to be in November! Have you registered yet? Early Bird registration closes on Sept. 30. Convention planners are adding some great professional development and education sessions to the program that you won’t want to miss. Here is a preview: Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Women in Agribusiness Professional Coaching “Hey! …
Passing of Mike Perrine
I am sad to say that I just found out that one of my best farm radio friends, Mike Perrine, has passed. I have enjoyed every conversation and we’ve had some fun times together. Mike was a great listener and had a wonderful sense of humor. He will be seriously missed by so many people who have worked with him. …
ZimmCast 745 – ZimmComm News & NAMA/NAFB Interviews
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this episode I’m going to share a couple of interviews from the NAMA Agri-Marketing Conference. One is with Gardner Hatch, Executive Director, NAFB and Debbie Boyle, Vice President, Kynetic. They talk about a new NAFB listener survey. Then I have an interview with Melanie Rice, Brownfield Ag News, about becoming the new President …
NAFB Releases New Listener Study
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting has released a new national farm radio listenership study finds radio is still the number one choice for daily ag news and information. The survey of more than 1,00 farmers and ranchers conducted by Kynetec Research also validates the importance of ag radio as a primary source for learning about ag products and services …
NCBA Pleased with Election Results, Hopeful for Farm Bill
The 2024 election turned out well for the nation’s cattle producers, according to National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Vice President of Government Affairs Ethan Lane. “Whether it be a president that we’ve worked with before, whether it be the defeat of radical animal rights action around the country, a tremendous election cycle, and I think now eyes turn to what can …