Andy Schwab, farm broadcaster for Northern Ag Network, received the Portavoz Award on July 13 at the 2nd Annual Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival. 

The Portavoz Award recognizes outstanding year-long coverage of the sheep industry by a media professional who has exhibited a strong commitment to fair, balanced, and consistent reporting locally, statewide, and/or nationally. 

Lydia Johnson started working for Agri-Pulse as a broadcaster on June 1. 

Johnson grew up on her family farm in central Iowa before attending Iowa State University. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in agricultural communications in May. 

This Month, NAFB Hall of Famer and 1989 NAFB President Mark Vail joins NAFB Historian Don Wick to discuss the change in sales and marketing and the dues structure that passed at the 1988 NAFB Convention. It was a historic time that continues to impact the organization today. 

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This month, NAFB Historian Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network visits with Ron Hays of the Radio Oklahoma Network about the origins of the NAFB News Service.

Susan Littlefield, farm director for KRVN and the Rural Radio Network, is celebrating her 30th anniversary of becoming a volunteer firefighter/EMT.