NAFB member Susan Littlefield was named 2016 Farm Broadcaster of the Year at the 73rd NAFB Convention on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016.
Q: How are you feeling after winning Farm Broadcaster of the Year?
Susan Littlefield: Ecstatic. Shocked. It was just, I mean it's like the pinnacle of everybody's career to be named Farm Broadcaster of the Year. I'm just still shaking.
Q: What is some of your career background?
Susan: I started at WRFR, which is University Wisconsin River Fall’s college radio station. And so I started there and I actually was going to be ag ed, and fell into radio and loved it and switched majors. I went from there to a very small station in Amery, Wisconsin and just kind of bounced from a couple of stations here and there after that. Now I work for KRVN/Rural Radio Network.
Q: What is your advice for young journalists and broadcasters?
Susan: Just have the passion. I mean you'll find as you get into it, it’s not a job. You know, it's just something you love, to be able to do it, it's pretty cool. And it's family, it's completely family.
Q: What improvements, if any, would you like to see in the farm broadcasting industry?
Susan: Just keep doing what we're doing. We are the voice to be able to tell the story of a farmer and a rancher and what happens. But beyond that we're the voice of the ag industry, to get the story out to others and the industry, up to the consumers. And those that you know live what we do daily.
Interview by 2016 NAFB Convention Social Media Corps member Evan Johnson, an agricultural communications student at Texas Tech. The 2016 NAFB Convention Social Media Corps is sponsored by Farm Credit.
