Mike Adams, recently retired national farm broadcaster and previous host of Adams on Agriculture (now Agriculture of America with Mike Pearson) and, most importantly, grandfather of CEO student Katelyn Adams, spoke to the class about his career in agricultural broadcasting.
Mike said he always knew he wanted to work in radio broadcasting. He worked on a grain and livestock farm growing up, but he had no idea how much that would impact his future. He said that growing up, radio meant ball games and music. He said he had no idea farm broadcasting was a thing. Mike worked as a DJ, a sports announcer, and in agriculture programming at WLDS for 26 years.
He joined the National Association of Farm Broadcasters and opportunities became available that provided new connections around the country. With those opportunities, he became a host of the nationally syndicated program, AgriTalk. After 17 years with AgriTalk, he started Adams on Agriculture.
As a Greenfield High School graduate from Rockbridge, Mike never dreamed he would meet the Pope, three U.S. Presidents, and Fidel Castro or travel to 16 countries around the world. He told the students to dream big.
Mike gave the students some great advice when he told them to be willing to put in the time and to never burn bridges. Thank you, Mike, for your time!
