NAFB Blog

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.

“Agriculture and small town America have always been a huge part of my life,” said Kimberly Nuelle (KMZU/KRLI, Higginsville, MO). “I grew up in Alma, MO, a small town with a population of under 400 people. My dad farms corn and soybeans and has cattle.