NAFB Blog

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. 

More than 100 people attended a noon party on June 21 to honor Terry Henne’s tenure at WSGW (Saginaw, MI). His wife and daughter were responsible for planning and executing the party on the deck at Radio Centre with the help of WGSW General Manager Shannone Dunlap.