As I drove home Sunday after convention, a song kept playing over and over in my head, You've Got a Friend In Me. I overheard a student conversation about how we all work so well together, sharing audio and equipment. One student said you wouldn't see that in any other media group, they are right. What we do as Farm Broadcasters is so unique, yet we are willing to go the extra mile to help out someone who will air the same story we just worked on.
Orion Samuelson’s career in farm broadcasting spanned over 64 years, the last 60 at WGN Radio in Chicago, Illinois. For this month’s “Lessons Learned,” Orion visited with NAFB Executive Director Tom Brand...
Kathy Patton’s career at WIBW and the Kansas Ag Network took her on journeys throughout the state, across the nation, and around the world. NAFB Historian Mike Adams visits with Kathy about her time in broadcast and what she’s been up to...
Peter Shinn’s career took him from the military to WOW Radio, then DTN, the NAFB News Service, and the Waitt Agribusiness Network. NAFB Historian Mike Adams visits with Peter....
Gary Jackson, a former farm broadcaster with WIMA Radio and the Ohio Ag Net, is retired, but is still broadcasting, doing video work for In Ohio Country Today...
The possibility of starting a new organization for farm broadcasters was mentioned as early as 1940. NAFB Historian Mike Adams visits with RoddyPeeples, who joined NARFD in 1956, for a look back at the early years of the association and how it has evolved through the years.