National Association of Farm Broadcasting (author)
Format:
Directory
Publication Date:
2020
Published:
USA: National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12128
Notes:
Printed directory via Jim Evans subscription. 100 pages., Annual membership directory. Contents include Broadcast Council of NAFB, Allied Industry Council, Non-Commercial Broadcast Council, Management and Sales Council, National Industry Sales Rep Firms, Students, Past Presidents, NAFB Hall of Farm, Farm Broadcaster of the Year, Emeritus, Honorary, and other sections.
2 pages., Posted online February 12, 2020., Brief news item announces that during December farm broadcaster Orion Samuelson (WGN Radio, Chicago, IL, and "This Week in Agri-Business" television program) marked his 45th year of doing a live year-end TV-radio interview with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It was conducted, as traditionally, in the office of the USDA Secretary in Washington, D.C.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05732
Notes:
"Airing on the Side of Agriculture" from the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. 2 pages., Features Orion Samuelson, long-time farm broadcaster with WGN Radio, Chicago, Illinois, and his partnership with Max Armstrong.
Life and career of the third president of NAFB and "one of NAFB's legends who contributed much to farm broadcasting as a network broadcaster." His career also involved service as Chief of Radio and Television for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C09762
Notes:
National Association of Farm Broadcasters Archives, University of Illinois. NAFB Publications Series No. 8/3/89. Box No. 9. Contact http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ or Documentation Center, Official Historian's Records 42 : 85<br>Clipping from "Mid-Am Report," page 14<br>Stamped "Aug 1985"
9 pages., via online journal., Social media platforms and other new technologies support the communication of many topics, both beneficial and controversial to t he development of the agriculture industry. Agricultural communicators’ use of these platforms is critical for engaging with stakeholders and communicating information beneficial to agriculture . The purpose of this study was to explore agricultural communicators’ use of devices and soci al media platforms in the United States. Researchers administered an online, descriptive que stionnaire to collect data from members of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. A ma jority of respondents used social media for work, with smartphones being the most common device used. Facebook and Twitter were used more than blogs and YouTube to interact with farmer s/ranchers. Respondents agreed that social media allowed them to quickly and conveniently comm unicate with others. Significant relationships existed between perceived usefulness and Pinterest, blogs, and Instagram, while one significant correlation existed between perceiv ed ease of use and Instagram. Respondents should continue to use Facebook and Twitter to enga ge their stakeholder groups in conversations about agriculture.
