NAFB Blog

In the middle of January, the weather forecasters started warning of a huge weather change for the weekend of January 14. Lory Williams (KBUF, Garden City, KS) reports, “In southwest Kansas, we had enjoyed warmer temperatures for a couple of weeks. I always find it interesting when the warnings come, because some listeners just brush it off.

​KFRM General Manager Kyle Bauer presents the check to rancher Gregg Stewart. “Much of the cattle industry harvests roughage over large secluded geographies where cattle graze with little supervision from farmers and ranchers.  

Jason Vance (Let’s Talk Horses Radio Network, Columbia, MO) began his radio career at KRES (Moberly, MO) while attending the University of Missouri. During a freshman agricultural journalism class, Tom Brand, then the farm director at KFEQ (St. Joseph, MO) was a guest speaker and talked about the radio press corps at the National FFA Convention.

When Mark Lambert (Allied Industry Member, National Corn Growers Association, Chesterfield, MO) read about Sabrina Hill’s second vocation as Mrs. Santa Claus (featured in our December newsletter), he contacted her to relate his own performances as Santa himself. Through the wonders of PhotoShop, Sabrina combined his and her photos to compose this family photo of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus.

Despite cold and snowy conditions in mid-December, farm broadcasters at RRFN (Grand Forks, ND) met the challenge. Mike Hergert said, “One thing about people who live here is they expect extreme weather and are prepared for it! The storms have been very well predicted and anticipated.