It’s time once again for the NAFB Plambeck Award. The National Association of Farm Broadcasting invites you to submit your entry for the Plambeck Award for Creative Excellence. Named in honor of NAFB Past President and Hall of Fame member Herb Plambeck, this award gives recognition for the best single and series radio commercial(s) that air on NAFB stations and …
NAFB Foundation Scholarships
Speaking of NAFB . . . They have announced their 2009 Foundation Scholarship Recipients. The NAFB Foundation has awarded three scholarships to college students actively seeking a career in agricultural journalism and communications. The recipients will be formally recognized at the Foundation Luncheon on Wednesday, November 11 at the NAFB Annual Convention in Kansas City, Mo. Selected for the Glenn …
Get Connected With NAFB
It’s time to book your room and reservation for this year’s National Association of Farm Broadcasting convention. You can hear a message from Greg Akagi about the convention here (mp3). Registrations are filtering in and hotel rooms are booking up fast! Don’t miss out on the agri-media event of the year…”Connecting: 2010 and Beyond”…the 65th Annual Convention of NAFB. Be …
Michelle Rook Interviews President Obama
President Barack Obama reached out to the farm media this week to promote his administration’s National Rural Tour. Doing the honors of interviewing the president on behalf of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting was past president Michelle Rook of WNAX, Yankton, SD. Michelle was able to ask Obama about several agricultural issues in the ten minute interview, including renewable …
NAFB Webinar
If you haven’t seen the results of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Wave Study then you’ve got an online chance coming up. We want to share that presentation with you, as an NAFB member. It features recorded clips of a number of producers, from across NAFB geography, talking about their dependence upon farm radio. These farmers and ranchers offer …
Heading To Washington Watch
Hello from Lambert Field, waiting on an already delayed flight. Beautiful weather here so who knows why. For all you NAFB members and farm tweeters, please use the #NAFB hashtag in your tweets this week. If you search it you’ll find that the conversation has already started. I posed the question “Will HSUS or new USDA admin/budget or Issues Forum …
Watching Washinton With NAFB
Hey you NAFB’ers who will be attending the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Washington Watch. You may know that we’ll have Wayne Pacelle, CEO, HSUS, speaking at dinner on Monday evening. Good thing we have a reception first. I think I’ll need some fortification to listen to his remarks. Maybe it will be entertaining though (in a sick, twisted sort …
NAFB’ers at Cattle Industy Convention
Speaking of NAFB, it’s always been kind of a tradition to have the members get together for a photo. We did that last night at the media reception. Of course not everyone attending was there at the time. But it’s still a group. Thanks to Colleen Church-McDowall for taking the picture of us. There are a lot of photos in …
Greg Akagi Is Part of the Team
At this morning’s Producer Huddle, formerly known as general session 2, the President-Elect of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Greg Akagi, was on stage. The session was a sports team theme so Greg’s comments followed that line. When he was finished he got everyone to “break the huddle” by yelling “team.” You can listen to Greg here: cic-09-akagi.mp3 There …
Rural Life Radio.com
It looks like Mike Parry has Rural Life Radio.com up and running. On it you can watch video interviews from the SHOT show. Hmm. Video clips on the web/radio broadcasting? Goes together, eh? I assume this is a project of the NAFB. Feel free to add to comments. “Welcome to RuralLifeRadio.com. This website is dedicated to those living the rural …