NAFB Blog

Larry Lee (Wisconsin Reporter/Anchor, Brownfield Ag News) said, “My career in broadcasting has been a series of unexpected events. Sometimes, things happen in life where you know God is driving, and we’re just along for the ride. That sums up my radio career.” He was approached by a high school classmate to join him at Brown Institute in Minneapolis after graduation in 1980. 

Rhonda Garrison (Southern Farm Network, Raleigh, NC) talked with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Preparedness team and offers an update on effects of Hurricane Matthew on North Carolina farmers and ranchers. The cotton crop was reduced by 30 percent, about the same amount as last year after Tropical Storm Joaquin, which lingered and produced 12 straight days of rain.

Often called the “radio voice of Kansas Agriculture,” WIBW Radio/Kansas Agriculture Network Farm Director Kelly Lenz was honored as one of the 2016 inductees to the Kansas Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

Rhonda Garrison (Southern Farm Network, Raleigh, NC) reports significant flooding of agricultural crops and livestock in the Carolinas from Hurricane Matthew, but damage reports are just now starting to come in.

A 100-megawatt wind energy project by Nextera Energy has arrived at Millard Century Farms LLC at Osborn, MO. Gene Millard is the third generation custodian of the family farm started by his grandparents on the first 80-acre tract in 1905.