NAFB Convention

NAFB member Susan Littlefield was named 2016 Farm Broadcaster of the Year at the 73^rd 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. 

Rustin Hamilton, writer, producer, and partner at Illumina Filmworks, spoke at the 73rd NAFB Convention bout ways to improve your “on-air” sound during a Friday morning workshop.
 
“Step out on a cliff and do something someone else wasn’t willing to do,” said Hamilton. 

A tip from today's session on ways to improve your "on-air" sound: Record yourself, and then listen and evaluate. -Rustin Hamilton. #NAFB16

Spencer Chase of Agri-Pulse discussed his involvement in NAFB and the benefits his membership has offered at the 73rd NAFB Convention.
 
Spencer explained he became a student member of NAFB at the behest of this employer to help him gain experience and insight from seasoned professionals as he began his career as a broadcaster. 

“The NAFB membership has given me a lot of mentoring. It’s given me access to a lot of folks that are just willing to give me advice,” Chase said.

Q:Why did you seek membership with NAFB?
A: I was a collegiate member of Mizzou ACT and had always heard that NAFB was something worthwhile to invest time in, so I became a student member of NAFB. After receiving the 2014 George Logan Scholarship from the NAFB Foundation, I received a free year of membership and after that I quickly realized that NAFB was something I enjoyed and wanted to join and get involved with. The association and members are an invaluable resource in starting my professional career.

Q1: Hi Carah! Can you introduce yourself?
A1: My name is Carah Hart. I am a farm broadcaster in the Red River Valley in a city called Grand Fox, North Dakota. I talk to farmers about what is going on in their fields, crops, and cattle. We also discuss economy. It is a lot of fun!

Trade Talk, the centerpiece event of each NAFB Convention, connects the agriculture industry with member broadcasters to discuss issues and topics important to their organizations, associations and companies. More than 100 broadcasters circulate among participants during the 6.5 hour event.
 
American Sugar Alliance representative Phillip Hayes said that American Sugar Alliance has attended Trade Talk every year. 
 

The Communicating to the Millennial Farmer Panel, sponsored by Poet, moderated by Dave Katzer, and consisting of Clarissa Unger, Kevin Heikes, Garrett Riekhof and Topanga McBride spoke on the changing face of agriculture and effective methods of communication and information distribution at the 73rd NAFB Convention.

Q: Hey, Carson! Could you introduce yourself?
A: My name is Carson Horn and I am with the Radio Oklahoma Network. I just came on as the Associate Farm Director underneath Ron Hays and I am fairly new at the radio game.

Q: What motivated you to join the NAFB this year?
A: I have understood that it is a great networking opportunity among business professionals in radio industry and I looked forward to attending the program to learn all I could, being new to the radio business.

Congratulations to Bob Bosold and Lynn Ketelsen who join the NAFB Hall Of Fame during the 73^rd NAFB Convention.