Unplugging his microphone for full-time retirement, Alan Jarand is moving from Illinois to New Orleans to be near family and to engage in fixing up their newly acquired home in the Historic District. He is surrounded by his RFD Radio Network (Bloomington, IL) colleagues, who wish him well.

Patrick Cavanaugh (California Ag Today, Clovis, CA) reports massive atmospheric rivers, one after another over the last few months, have been racking up rain totals throughout the state. “The San Joaquin 5-Station Precipitation Index surpassed the Top 12 Wettest Season rankings in the state’s climate history by 0.02 of an inch. Furthermore, snow accumulation is 170 percent of normal (as of February 24).”

Can you help me? You may not know the answers, but you can probably help someone figure out how to get an answer. If so you could be an NAFB Mentor! We are setting up a program to help Allied Industry Council members get questions answered, get better acclimated to the association, figure out things like what sessions they should attend at convention, etc. Any number of questions may come up for a newer member. Having a mentor, or basically a buddy to contact would make things much easier.

Lorrie is a 21-year veteran of farm broadcasting, and is the Farm Director at KSIR in Fort Morgan, CO. She is motivated by an intense desire for ag advocacy; telling the farming and ranching story. Lorrie covers issues at local, state and national levels, building a long-standing relationship with every ag organization in the process. As a farm broadcaster, Lorrie finds passion in her career, as she gets to learn something new each day and work with salt-of-the earth people, using her creativity and personality to entertain and inform loyal audiences each day.

“Well, if you’ll look on our website, you’ll find all the details right there.” That’s how our executive director gracefully explained to me that if I took the time to explore NAFB.com, all I needed to know was right at my fingertips. He was right. 

Have you done that lately? Have you really looked around on our site? Other than seeking the contact information for other members or utilizing the outstanding resources and feeds of our News Service, have you taken a dive down into what else is there? I hope you will.