Frank Jeter was the agricultural editor and director of publications for N.C. State College (today’s N.C. State University) in Raleigh from 1914 until his death in 1955.  

He hosted “Carolina Farm Features,” a daily 15-minute program produced by the college’s Cooperative Extension Service.  The program started in 1935 and eventually was succeeded by the “Tar Heel Farm Hour” in 1954, produced in association with the N.C. Association of Broadcasters. 

The programs aired over Raleigh’s WPTF-AM.  The college produced agricultural programming for WPTF as early as 1927.  Daily broadcasts started in 1930, some of which included market reports from the state’s farm commodities.

WPTF launched the Southern Farm Network in 1974, providing agricultural news and features to a regional network of radio stations.  The service continues as of 2017.

Here are other entries about WPTF.

Source: NCSU Libraries (”Early Radio Programs of the NC Cooperative Extension”)

Here are other entries about Des Moines’ WHO-TV.

Here are other entries about Dallas’ WFAA-AM, today’s KLIF-AM.

Here are entries about Chicago’s WLS-AM, once known as “The Prairie Farmer Station.”

This is how San Francisco’s KRON-TV explored the 1975-77 California drought.  

Here are earlier entries about KRON.

Here’s a page from a 1939 edition of “Rural Radio,” a magazine geared toward rural radio audiences.  It’s a handy listing of farm and weather information available on powerful radio stations throughout the country.  Rural listeners often had to rely on strong out-of-town signals in the early days of radio.   Also note the section devoted to women’s programming.

Here are earlier entries about Topeka’s WIBW.

“The National Farm and Home Hour” ran from 1928 to 1958.  The variety show was designed to appeal to rural Americans, covering farm news and events, agricultural and home advice, as well as music.  

The U.S. Department of Agriculture produced the program with the cooperation of several farm organizations, including the American Farm Bureau, 4-H Club and Future Farmers of America.

The series first aired on KDKA/Pittsburgh in 1928.  It moved to the NBC Blue Network (later The Blue Network and ABC) from 1929 to 1945, airing Monday through Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Eastern.  It continued on NBC from 1945 to 1958 as a 30-minute show that ran Saturdays at noon.  From 1955 to 1958, it was incorporated into NBC’s weekend “Monitor” series.

Everett Mitchell was the host whose signature phrase, ‘It’s a beautiful day in Chicago!“ became a popular catch phrase.

Here’s a recording of a 1949 broadcast.

Source: Wikipedia (The National Farm and Home Hour)