Tom Steever

Tom Steever earned his degree in broadcast journalism from South Dakota State University and began his farm broadcast career at KSOO Radio in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After 19 years with KSOO, Steever became executive director of the Sioux Falls Stockyards, which included twice daily reports on the Sioux Falls CBS affiliate, KELO Television, as well as on dozens of radio stations throughout the Upper Midwest. In early 1997, Steever moved to Chicago to anchor Channel Earth on DirecTV. After the agricultural television venture left the air, Steever served the American Farm Bureau Federation public relations team at their Park Ridge, Illinois headquarters. When the AFBF moved to Washington, D.C. in 2003, Steever accepted the invitation to be part of the Brownfield broadcast team in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Steever has covered farm stories in India, England, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Denmark, Chile and Guatemala, as well as in most of the United States. Tom currently serves as Regional Vice President of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. Tom’s career took shape from his upbringing on his family’s South Dakota farm. Tom, his wife Lori, and their son Brian all perform in their church choir music group.