NAFB Blog

Dave Niedfeldt (KWBE-AM, Beatrice, NE) joined the staff in August 1987, and was named Farm Director in 1988, to cover agricultural news on the local, state and national level. A member of NAFB for 13 years, he has received numerous awards and honors from The Nebraska Associated Press Broadcasters, Great Plains Broadcast Association, the Nebraska Broadcasters Association, and the Nebraska Dairy Association.

After serving 18 years with KZEN (Columbus, NE), Susan Littlefield joined KRVN Rural Radio Network in Nebraska on August 30, working through their York, NE, office and her home office. In this position, she will continue to serve many of her longtime listeners.

For more than 50 years, Jerry Lackey (Emeritus member, San Angelo, TX) has worked as an agricultural journalist and farm broadcaster. A newly published photo documentary book shows many of the Presidents, Governors, Congressmen and key agricultural leaders who Jerry met and interviewed from his “ringside” position as a journalist.

Dr. Jim Evans (Honorary Member, Philo, IL) joined NAFB in 1954. “My connections with farm broadcasting trace back to 1951 when I was an agricultural journalism sophomore at Iowa State College. R. C. (Cap) Bentley, director of market reporting at the college radio station, WOI, employed me as a part-time assistant.

Mike Dain (First Oklahoma Ag Network/Voice of Southwest Agriculture/Yancey Ag Network, Oklahoma City, OK) received the honorary Oklahoma Cattlewoman of the Year Award July 22.