If You Have Yet to Register, Now is the Time In barely six weeks, the 64th Annual Convention of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting will gather in Kansas City...continued On the Marketing & Promotion Road: Mike
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Secretary of Agriculture Confirmed Speaker at
Convention
NAFB Foundation Scholarship Recipients Announced Notice of NAFB Annual Membership Meeting President's Report WOSU, ABN Radio Announce New Partnership Tom Hoy Photographs on Exhibit at
National Press Club
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If You Have Yet To Register, Now Is the Time In barely six weeks, the 64th
Annual Convention of the National Association of Farm
Broadcasting will gather in Kansas City at the
familiar Westin Crown Center. Are your registered? You will not be receiving a Postal mailing to register for the Convention and to make your hotel registration. You can do so at www.nafb.com or by calling the office at 816.431.4032. In fact, all you need to know about the Convention is on the NAFB Web site. Our theme "Making Waves, Lifting Tides" highlights the powerful research NAFB will unveil on Thursday, November 13 -- the NAFB National Producer Media-Use Wave Study. Make plans to attend the session, from 2 to 3 p.m. that afternoon, just before the Annual Membership Meeting and individual member Council meetings.The NAFB Foundation Luncheon again will officially open the Convention at 11:30 on Wednesday, November 12. That afternoon will feature two educational sessions, including a shared rural lifestyle panel with the NAMA "Trends in Agriculture" event at the Hyatt. Our opening reception will be that night at 6 p.m. Friday, November 14, offers a morning trip to the Kansas City Board of Trade and a special afternoon professional development workshop. And of course, count on all the fun, networking, and some surprises. Don't wait to register -- our room block at the Crown Center Westin is not unlimited. On the Marketing & Promotion Road: Mike Parry  It's October and I can't wait for Halloween and costumes. The grandkids are so excited about trick or treating, that's all they talk about. Their expectations of that evening are very high. Just thinking of the unknown amount of treats gives them an adrenaline rush, like the sugar high from the candy. I think that's where I'm at with the 2008 National Producer Media-Use Wave Study. I'm so excited for the release at the November Convention that I can hardly stand it. Every day I think about the data being collected and how it will help so many effectively place marketing programs by having the most current information available on all media use. I can see it now, November 12, 2008, watching all the dignitaries walking down the red carpet to view the presentation. Look at them, walking through the spinning spotlights in full dress. Can you see them . . . .John Deere, Syngenta, Monsanto, Mosaic, Case IH. Oops, reality check here. So maybe there won't be a red carpet for the release of the Wave Study, but there will be eye-opening, mouth-dropping data presented that will surely keep the industry buzzing for quite some time. Hope to see you at the NAFB Convention. A quick recap of September: I never made it to Des Moines as time got away from me. It was three days in Milwaukee, starting with the Open Roads agency and John Anderson. On to Bader-Rutter, it was an enlightening visit with Jacci Buehl and staff. It was then down to Park Ridge, Ill., and a good discussion with Will Murphy and Company at Farm Journal Media. Not too much time to rest as I was back home and then off to Austin, Texas, speaking about our Rural Lifestyle Report at the NAB Radio Show. I'll be talking with you more down the road about my NAB Radio Show experience and some things I heard that you need to hear too! Stay tuned for more on that. I finished off the month with a trip to Kansas City and a couple of meetings. Your M&P leaders met with research firm Market Directions about NAFB interests in taking the "next" step with our Rural Lifestyle research. Susan Spaulding and Lyssa Surface gave us some things to think about. Then it was a visit with Barry Nelson and Eric Hodson at John Deere. Again one comes to realize that with every business, change is inevitable. Thanks to Barry and Eric for a heads-up on changes at John Deere. As always, if there is anything I can help your organization with give me a call or shoot an e-mail. Until next time . . . "Success is a journey, not a destination." --Ben Sweetland Back to the
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Secretary of Agriculture Confirmed Speaker at Convention U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed
Schafer will kick-off the 2008 NAFB Convention on
Wednesday, Nov. 12 wi Secretary Schafer was sworn in as the 29th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 28, 2008. He served as North Dakota's governor from 1992 to 2000 and made diversifying and expanding North Dakota's economy, reducing the cost of government and advancing agriculture his top priorities in office. Schafer
was elected chair of the Republican Governors
Association in 2000 and that same year he co-founded and
co-chaired the Governors Biotechnology Partnership to
increase public understanding and support for the
benefits of agricultural biotechnology.
NAFB Foundation Scholarship Recipients Announced
The NAFB Foundation has awarded three scholarships to college students actively seeking a career in agricultural journalism. The recipients formally will be accepting their scholarships at the Foundation Luncheon on Wednesday, November 12. Glenn Kummerow Memorial Scholarship - $5,000Katie Allen Marceline, Missouri
Katie graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in agricultural journalism and double minor in animal science and agricultural economics in May 2008. While at Mizzou, Katie was involved in Collegiate CattleWomen, Block and Bridle and the Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow. She also represented MU on the 2006 Livestock Judging Team and 2007 reserve national champion Meat Animal Evaluation Team. Her team lost that national championship to Texas Tech University. Katie is now a first-year Master's student in agricultural communications at Texas Tech, where she is serving as a graduate student assistant. Katie hopes to broaden her knowledge in food safety, ag policy and communications in the graduate program. She has an interest in government and hopes to one day report on political issues relating to agriculture as a writer and broadcaster. NAFB Scholarship - $4,000
Throughout her youth and now adulthood, she has always enjoyed writing and speaking. Rachel's career focus is to report on health and nutrition topics in addition to international topics. She has done podcast reporting for the University's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR). She was also their department intern. Her internship included designing and completing a CAFNR newsletter geared toward prospective students and working with other recruitment efforts by the department. Rachel plans on becoming a reporter focusing on health and nutrition, possibly in a smaller market. Rachel is very active in the ministry of serving others and evangelizing. Her parents are Rita and Doyle Moten. Her younger sister is Brianna Moten. Rachel also enjoys playing tennis, basketball, and soccer. In her spare time she loves talking, reading, writing, reading the Bible, drawing, and spending time with family and friends. NAFB Scholarship - $4,000
She is currently pursuing her master's degree in agricultural communications at the University of Arkansas. At U of A she teaches four agricultural communications lab courses and is active in Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow, serving as the student adviser. Her graduate research specializes in a perceived educational needs survey of agritourism business owners in the state of Arkansas. She has completed internships at Schreiber Foods in Green Bay, Wisc., and Hilmar Cheese Company in Hilmar, Calif. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, reading and spending time with her family and friends. Back to the
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Notice of NAFB Annual Membership Meeting The Annual Membership Meeting of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting will convene Thursday, November 13, at 3:15 p.m. in the Liberty Room of the Westin Crown Center hotel, Kansas City. All members of all Councils are invited and encouraged to attend. Individual member Council meetings will follow, at 4 p.m., on November 13. Regional Broadcast Council meetings will convene at 5 p.m. Eligible voting Broadcast Council members may request an absentee ballot, if you will not be attending the Annual Convention or membership meetings. That ballot should be requested by Friday, October 10. Ballots must be returned to the NAFB national office no later than one week prior to the election of officers, which will occur November 13. Ballots will remain sealed until ballots are counted at the election.
President's
Report
NAFB 2008 President Randy Koenen invites you to listen to his "President's Minute" by clicking here.
National Officer Candidates Announce Intentions
Lindsay Hill
In 2005, she and her husband, Andy Vance, launched The Buckeye Ag Radio Network. Then in early 2007, the couple took over operations of ABN Radio, bringing Lindsay back to the place she got her start.
Lindsay
was raised in DeGraff, Ohio and eventually returned
to her family's home farm, where she serves on the
planning committee for the Top-of-Ohio Ag Tour.
Lindsay
serves on the executive committee for the Ohio
Agricultural Council, as chair of the annual Ohio
Agricultural Hall of Fame ceremony. She was recently
nominated by Congressman Jim Jordan and selected to
receive the prestigious William Oxley Thompson Award
from the Ohio State University Alumni Association
recognizing early career achievement. Tricia Braid Terry is the radio news manager for the Illinois Farm Bureau. She serves as executive producer of daily news content for radio, producing both features and news segments for RFD Illinois. Previously, she was a field editor for Illinois AgriNews, and held the same position with Prairie Farmer Magazine. She was the communications director for the Macon County Farm Bureau prior to joining the staff at WMBD/WIRL in 2004. Tricia was the 2008 recipient of an American Farm Bureau Federation Public Relations Award for Best Audio Feature Story. She also has received both the Illinois Corn Growers and Illinois Soybean Growers Excellence in Broadcasting awards (2005 and 2007) and the Illinois Soybean Association Excellence in Print Media in 2001. She has been nominated for the Horizon Award. Her NAFB activities include serving on several committees including the Trade Talk Committee, the Media Room Planning Committee, and the Convention Planning Committee. Tricia also served as an East Regional Director. Tricia is a graduate of the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program and is one of two representatives of the Illinois Farm Bureau on the Illinois Agricultural Association Volunteer Coordinating Council. She lives in Funks Grove with her husband, Russ, and sons, Duncan and Ian. WOSU, ABN Radio Announce New Partnership WOSU Public Media has announced a new partnership
with ABN Radio, the largest farm radio network in Ohio.
ABN will relocate their headquarters to WOSU facilities
on the Ohio State campus in Columbus in early 2009.
Tom Hoy Photographs on Exhibit at National Press Club Photographs of Tom Hoy, Washington Star staff photographer and Honorary NAFB Member, will be featured in the upcoming exhibit "A Decade of Washington News Photography: 1956-1966" at the National Press Club. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, October 3. The show will run through October 21.
Don Wick with the Red River Farm Network (right) interviewing United Soybean Board (USB) Director Bob Kirchner, a soybean farmer from Brewster, Minn., at the FarmFest outdoor farm show held in July near Redwood Falls, Minnesota.  Chad Moyer (left), KTIC-Rural
Radio Network, did a remote from on top of a 7000 bu
grain bin at Husker Harvest Days, Sept 9-11, 2008 in
Grand Island, NE. Also in the picture is "Big Al"
Arndt, District Sales Manager for Brock Grain
Systems, Milford, Indiana.
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Katie
Allen is from Marceline, Missouri. She is the
23-year-old daughter of Kevin and Brenda Allen and
sister to five younger siblings: Krista, Eric, Becca,
Natalie and Halle. Katie's passion for agriculture
derived from her family's north Missouri farm, where
she grew up around row crops, Limousin and
commercial cattle, hogs and sheep. She exhibited
livestock in 4-H and now enjoys judging livestock
shows and helping her brother and sisters get their
animals ready on summer show days.
Rachel
Moten
is from Chicago, Illinois and is currently a junior
at the University of Missouri - Columbia. She plans
to attain a bachelor's degree in Agricultural
Journalism with a minor in Spanish and International
Agriculture. Rachel describes herself as "having a
serving heart and a humorous, gregarious,
extroverted, and open-minded personality." 
Katlin Amaral grew up in California's heartland, the
central valley in Denair, California. She attended
Modesto Junior College for two years before
transferring to Oklahoma State University, where she
received her Bachelor of Science degree in
Agricultural Communications. While at OSU she was
able to travel to Italy through the study abroad
program and Australia as part of the Oklahoma
Agricultural Leadership Encounter leadership group. 
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(pictured
left to right) Ohio State University President E.
Gordon Gee; Lindsay Hill chief marketing
officer for ABN; WOSU General Manager Tom Rieland;
Andy Vance ABN chief executive officer. Photo
Credit: ZimmComm New Media