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  American Farm Bureau Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AFBF soon became the voice of agriculture at the national level, with an affiliate in each of the 50 states.
Farm Bureau is an independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization governed by and representing farm and ranch families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems and formulating action to achieve educational improvement, economic opportunity and social advancement and, thereby, to promote the national well-being.
Farm Bureau is local, county, state, national and international in its scope and influence and is non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-secret in character.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farm_Bureau   (320 words)

  
 Massachusetts Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau is a grassroots organization made up of volunteer members from family farms and farm related businesses.
The Massachusetts and American Farm Bureau Federations are known as the largest and most effective general farm organizations on Beacon Hill and Capitol Hill.
Who joins Farm Bureau is individuals that are interested in the welfare of agriculture and want a common voice to speak out on issues involving local, state, national, and international affairs.
www.massfarmbureau.com /membership.htm   (297 words)

  
 Michigan Farm Bureau: AgriNotes August 23, 2001 Issue
American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman (third from left) and Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Dan Wyant (second from left) talk farm issues with Huron County Farm Bureau members Joel and Angie Ball at the couple's Harbor Beach dairy farm.
The Aug. 20 farm stop was one of several activities for Stallman's participation in the Tri-County Annual Meeting of the Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac County Farm Bureaus.
The Michigan Farm Bureau Board of Directors believes it is very important for the affected counties to be declared disaster areas as soon as possible to expedite federal assistance to farmers.
www.michiganfarmbureau.com /press/2001/20010823.php   (3954 words)

  
 American Farm Bureau: The Enemy Within
As local farm bureaus began to federate on a state basis they eventually gave birth to the AFBF in 1920, while the relationship became largely illusory for the real power was being transferred from the colleges to corporate agribusiness through Washington.
As recently as 1985 the Texas Farm Bureau voiced its opposition to a federal minimum wage for farm workers, in addition to reaffirming its long-standing opposition to child labor legislation, workers' compensation and unemployment compensation, and the abolition of the back-breaking short-handled hoe.
It is important in any discussion of the Farm Bureau to make a distinction between its leadership and its farmer members for in many cases the latter have been equally victimized by their state and national officers and policies.
www.organicconsumers.org /OFGU/enemy050905.cfm   (2179 words)

  
 Statement of American Farm Bureau Federation, June 10, 2003
The American Farm Bureau Federation’s farmer and rancher members produce virtually every agricultural commodity grown or raised commercially in the United States.
While American farmers and ranchers have the highest production rates in the world, multiple layers of restrictive regulations at the local, state and national levels have impaired their ability to farm and ranch efficiently in an increasingly competitive global market.
The majority and minority opinions both held that mere hydrological connection is not enough to claim federal jurisdiction and emphasized that there must be a clear and compelling connection between traditional navigability and the wetlands or waters to be regulated by federal agencies.
epw.senate.gov /108th/AFBF_061003.htm   (1039 words)

  
 Meet the American Farm Bureau, Defenders Magazine, Summer 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Bureau Federation in 1994 sought to stop wolf reintroduction and, in the years since, has continued to carry the banner for those who would kill the project.
The Farm Bureau may be something of a masked warrior in the political arena in which conservationists fight their battles.
The Farm Bureau's obscurity in the minds of most conservationists does not mean that it is a weak voice among organizations pushing an anti-conservation and anti-environmental agenda.
www.defenders.org /magazinenew/features/meetfarmbur.html   (942 words)

  
 Home - Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation is a Sponsor Member of Mid American Ag and Hort Services (MAAHS), and encourages Farm Bureau members to use MAAHS’ labor law posting compliance information.
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation® is a member of American Farm Bureau Federation®, a national organization of farmers and ranchers including Farm Bureau® organizations in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
The positions of the national Farm Bureau organization collectively are expressed through American Farm Bureau Federation, whose website can be found at http://www.fb.org.
www.ofbf.org   (559 words)

  
 Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation is a member of the American Farm Bureau Federation®, a national organization of farmers and ranchers which includes Farm Bureau® organizations in 49 other states and Puerto Rico.
Farm Bureau and FB are registered service marks owned by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
As a member of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, all personal information you provide is used to administer our business and related services in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations.
www.iowafarmbureau.com /legal.aspx   (596 words)

  
 Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau survey shows high cost of health insurance and lack of coverage for Wisconsin farmers.
There are 61 county Farm Bureaus in Wisconsin covering 66 counties, organized and run by farmers to provide local representation and promotion.
American Farm Bureau Federation, Farm Bureau, the FB logo and Voice of Agriculture
www.wfbf.com   (217 words)

  
 American Farm Bureau Federation West's Encyclopedia of American Law - Find Articles
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting, protecting, and representing the interests of U.S. farmers.
The AFBF is a federation of 2,800 county farm organizations, which elect representatives to state farm bureaus.
The word bureau in farm bureau is used because the first organization was formed as a "bureau" of the local CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_km4457/is_200510/ai_n16264226   (201 words)

  
 Yolo County Farm Bureau : About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Yolo County Farm Bureau : About Us Yolo County Farm Bureau® is a member of California Farm Bureau Federation, a statewide organization of farmers and ranchers with 53 member county Farm Bureau organizations covering 56 California counties.
California Farm Bureau Federation is a member of American Farm Bureau Federation®, a national organization of farmers and ranchers with member state Farm Bureau organizations in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
The positions of the state Farm Bureau organization collectively are expressed through California Farm Bureau Federation, whose website can be found at http://www.cfbf.com/.
www.yolofarmbureau.org /disclaimer.php   (182 words)

  
 Virginia Farm Bureau Federation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Virginia Farm Bureau Federation is an organization of farmers and rural families with more than 148,000 members.
It is part of the American Farm Bureau Federation which boasts more than 5.5 million members in the United States and Puerto Rico.
County Farm Bureaus across the nation collectively form their respective state Farm Bureaus, and the state Farm Bureaus comprise the American Farm Bureau.
www.vafb.com /aboutvfb.htm   (126 words)

  
 Welcome to the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Total farm value for cotton was $311.5 million and prodcuers averaged a yield of 931.7 pounds of lint per acre.
Precision farming practices boost crop yields and reduce waste by using satellite maps and computers to match seed, fertilizer and crop protection applications to local soil conditions.
And the average farm expenses increased from $68,000 in 1992 to $79,000 in 1997.
www.lfbf.org /member/facts   (1099 words)

  
 The American Farm Bureau Federation is rugning the U.S. to negotiate good trade deals
AFBF’s highest trade priority is a successful conclusion to the multilateral Doha Round of the WTO negotiations.
AFBF believes that any reductions in domestic supports must be balanced against improvements in the area of market access in order to advance export prospects for farmers and ranchers.
Farm Bureau supports the complete elimination of export subsidies as contained in the most recent Framework Agreement of WTO agricultural trade negotiation, Christopherson said.
southeastfarmpress.com /news/051905-AFBF-WTO   (452 words)

  
 Mahoning County Farm Bureau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Mahoning Farm Bureau Federation® is a member of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation® and the American Farm Bureau Federation®, a national organization of farmers, ranchers, and families including farm bureau organizations in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
The Mahoning County Farm Bureau Federation and Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Programs and Services, unless otherwise indicated are available only to farm bureau members within the county and state of Ohio.
Farm Bureau® and FB® are registered marks owned by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
www.mahoningfarmbureau.com   (167 words)

  
 San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau
San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau® is a member of California Farm Bureau Federation, a statewide organization of farmers and ranchers with 53 member county Farm Bureau organizations covering 56 California counties.
California Farm Bureau Federation is a member of American Farm Bureau Federation®, a national organization of farmers and ranchers with member state Farm Bureau organizations in all 50 states and
San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau programs and services, unless otherwise indicated, are available only to members of San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau.
www.slofarmbureau.org   (170 words)

  
 South Carolina Farm Bureau - Voice for Agriculture
American Farm Bureau Federation has established the Farm Bureau Hurricane Ag Fund, a nationwide effort to raise money and collect food donations for farm and ranch families and rural communities.
“By establishing the Farm Bureau Hurricane Ag Fund we hope to provide a donation option for people wishing to assist the farm families and rural residents who were left in the wake of hurricane destruction,” Stallman said.
The American Farm Bureau also will contribute to the Hurricane Ag Fund, and Stallman said that county Farm Bureaus, state Farm Bureaus and individual members may mail checks directly to the AFB Foundation.
www.scfb.org   (523 words)

  
 Welcome to the Oklahoma Farm Bureau
Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s 16th Annual State Livestock Judging Contest will be held Friday, September 15 during the State Fair of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee will host a group of international students from Oklahoma State University on a farm tour across central Oklahoma in October.
According to Canadian officials, contaminated feed at a manufacturing plant was the source of infection for the country’s 7th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy detected since 2003.
www.okfarmbureau.org   (244 words)

  
 APC: Action Central > Sledgehammer > Articles > American Farm Bureau Federation SELLS OUT to Green Land Trusts!
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and their high-priced lobbyists have SOLD OUT their members, farmers and property rights advocates.
"Farm Bureau supports excluding a percentage of the gain from the sale of permanent conservation easements and from land sales to an entity that intends to keep the land in a conservation use."
In other words: The Farm Bureau supports making it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone but the government and the billion-dollar environmental movement to purchase land.
www.americanpolicy.org /sledgehammer/farmbureau.htm   (616 words)

  
 American Farm Bureau Federation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The American Farm Bureau Federation annually conducts a Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement Award competitive event.
It is recommended that the state Farm Bureaus provide, as part of the state recognition and award, an expense-paid trip to the AFBF Annual Convention held 2007 in
AFBF reserves the right to use your photos and/or any video footage for use in promoting Farm Bureau.
www.wsfb.com /YFR/achievement_award_2007.htm   (1214 words)

  
 Right-Wing Business in Farmer's Overalls: The American Farm Bureau Federation
The Farm Bureau was founded in the early 1900s by the New York Chamber of Commerce and funded with money from Rockefellers and Vanderbilts via the Chicago Board of Trade (A.V. Krebbs, Corporate Reaper).
The Farm Bureau is sometimes described as "the nation's largest farm organization, with 5 million members" (e.g., Houston Chronicle, 1/8/00), but there are only about 1.9 million farmers in the U.S. and they are not all Farm Bureau members.
The AFBF made virtually no mention of its opposition to the merger moratorium to its members until its quiet lobbying was exposed by the Cattlemen's Legal Fund.
www.fair.org /extra/best-of-extra/farm_bureau_3-00.html   (733 words)

  
 Educating About Agriculture
The units include America's Food Supply- Economical and Safe, America's Farms and Farmers, American Farmers and the Environment, Agriculture and the Government, The Economics of Food, and American Agriculture is a High-Tech Business.
Each of the Farm Facts graphs has been enhanced to appear as one single image per frame suitable for presentation purposes for the classroom or public uses.
More information about American Farm Bureau Federation can be found at http://www.fb.org.
www.ageducate.org   (380 words)

  
 Oklahoma Farm Bureau -
Alfalfa County’s Roland and Terry Pederson were named Oklahoma Farm Bureau Farm Family of the Year Nov. 13 at the 64th annual state convention in Oklahoma City.
He was reared on a small wheat farm and she was reared on a small dairy and wheat farm.
While the farming operation demands most of their time, both have active roles in community and church activities.
www.okfarmbureau.org /news/newsReleases2005/nr11-15-05_3.asp   (653 words)

  
 The Voice of Agriculture - American Farm Bureau
The Voice of Agriculture - American Farm Bureau
America’s Heartland, the public television series that celebrates the miracle of American agriculture, is back for a second season, and the show’s producers plan to make the show better than ever.
PA Farm Bureau Urges Rejection of Rules that Threaten Vocational Ag Programs
www.fb.org   (209 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Farm Bureau - Association for Farmers and Rural Families in Pennsylvania
For the past several months, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau has been working with state and federal lawmakers to insist that new national and state laws include provisions enabling an adequate supply of immigrant labor for agriculture.
(State College) - Pennsylvania Farm Bureau urged the House Education Committee during recent testimony to reject changes to vocational agriculture programs by the State Education Department that could dramatically reduce the ability of students to participate in agriculture education classes.
(Camp Hill) – Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB) has successfully secured a change to crop insurance rules that will make certain coverages more available to farmers in Northeastern states and help them better manage their agricultural risk.
www.pfb.com   (343 words)

  
 Farm Bureau Federation, Official Petition to the American Farm Bureau Federation -- Defenders of Wildlife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Farm Bureau Federation, Official Petition to the American Farm Bureau Federation -- Defenders of Wildlife
We the undersigned, are outraged that recent legal action by the American Farm Bureau could lead to the extermination of wolves in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho.
Therefore, I strongly urge you to use your power as president of the American Farm Bureau to drop the lawsuit that has placed the Yellowstone wolves in such grave danger.
www.defenders.org /ynppet.html   (143 words)

  
 The American Farm Bureau Federation will hold its annual convention Jan. 9-12 in Charlotte, N.C.
American Farm Bureau Federation to meet in Charlotte, N.C. Jul 16, 2004 9:13 AM A city known as much for its connection to the roaring excitement of stock car racing as it is the tranquility of its southern charm will welcome Farm Bureau members this coming January.
More than 5,000 Farm Bureau members from across the nation are expected to converge on the “Queen City” to celebrate agriculture and hammer out policies to guide Farm Bureau through 2005.
General informational sessions on Farm Bureau priority issues, commodity outlooks and special presentations on personal development also will be included.
southeastfarmpress.com /news/71604AFBF-convention/index.html   (519 words)

  
 Welcome to the Oregon Farm Bureau Official Homepage
In a radio spot, Oregon Farm Bureau and the Oregon Association of Nurseries publicly thank U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith for his ongoing support of immigration reform, including a guest-worker program.
OFB is pleased to announce the latest Farm Bureau member benefit: the Advantage Dental Plan.
Farm Bureau members can now get 60% off hearing aids...
www.oregonfb.org   (286 words)

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