NAFB Blog

​Brownfield Ag News announced June 8 that Andrew Flinn is joining the Brownfield team as Ohio Anchor/Reporter. “Andrew’s years of experience covering news and agriculture for local radio stations in Ohio makes him a great addition to the Brownfield team,” said  Cyndi Young-Puyear, Director of Brownfield & Ag Operations. Flinn came to Brownfield after 15 years reporting news and agriculture in his home state of Ohio. 

Don Lerch, Lifetime Broadcast Council-Emeritus member, who resides in Juno Beach, FL, tops the NAFB list of longtime members at 70 years. At 97 years young, he recalled his early farm broadcasting years in a phone call on June 1. He began his farm broadcasting career on June 9, 1941, at KDKA (Pittsburgh, PA), a Westinghouse-owned station and part of the NBC Red Network. He had just graduated from Penn State University with a degree in agronomy. 

Lane Nordlund is the Associate Ag Director at the Northern Ag Network based in Billings, MT. The network provides 22 different daily radio shows on 60 radio stations and two HD TV programs on 12 TV stations. Lane is the sixth generation of his family to raise cattle on their ranch on the Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation as well as off the reservation near Dodson, MT. 

“I’m one of the lucky few selected to attend Leadership NAFB 2016 prior to the NAFB Washington Watch event in April,” reports Carah Hart (Red River Farm Network, Grand Forks, ND). In two days, a group of seven broadcasters shared an open dialogue about what it’s like to be a leader in the workplace, focusing on the power of vulnerability, articulating a vision and good communication.