Rita Frazer has been director of radio for the Illinois Farm Bureau since January 2015.As director, Rita is responsible for the management and administration of the RFD Radio Network. She also serves as an on-air personality, joining Alan Jarand and DeLoss Jahnke in producing and distributing more than a dozen programs each weekday for use by more than 80 Illinois radio stations.Prior to her present position, Rita served as network anchor/broadcast editor with the RFD Illinois Radio Network since joining in December, 2011. Rita was an award-winning farm broadcaster and 22-year employee with WSMI Radio in Litchfield, a major affiliate of the RFD Network. She also produced farm programming for soybean farmers for an ad-hoc network of stations, and produced the RFD Livestock Report under contract to IFB and the Illinois Livestock Development Group. Rita is a voting member of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting.