eChats

Michigan Farm Radio Network (MFRN) continued its gnome tradition for the second year at the Michigan Ag Expo. Its’s the perfect way to meet listeners during the annual Michigan Ag Expo.

NAFB included questions in the AMR Corn Belt Study this past spring. A few highlights from the study include: 

• 89% of all farmers in the Corn Belt with $100,000 GFI listen to the radio for farm markets, weather or farm news report in general
• Daily farm radio listeners
  • 62% of all farmers surveyed listen daily to the radio 
  • 89% of all farmers surveyed listen three or more days per week 

While NAFB business meetings in recent years have been short and void of controversy, that hasn't always been the case. Those of us who remember meetings in the 70's, 80's and 90's remember long, emotional debates with members standing in line at microphones waiting to speak. Many of those debates centered around membership qualifications but that was by no means a new topic of discussion. At the organization's very first meeting in 1944, the question of membership qualifications was discussed at length

The NAFB membership is growing. Please help us welcome several new and honorary members to the association.

This November in Kansas City, NAFB will celebrate its 71st convention with the theme “From Our Roots Our Future Grows.”

As I edit the submissions for each month’s installments of NAFB eChats, I find myself pondering the overarching “theme” behind the month’s dispatch. This month, with stories about our Foundation internship program and photos featuring longtime University of Illinois professor Jim Evans, my mind wandered toward one of my favorite self-reflective questions: what do I want to be when I grow up?