How is Farm Bureau policy set?
Voting members set all Farm Bureau policy initially through a democratic process of majority rules. It starts in the county when issues (local, state or national) are surfaced and voted on by voting members at the County Farm Bureau annual meeting. The resolutions of state or national interest are then forwarded to the state office to be presented to and voted on by delegates at the Minnesota Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. If they are approved by delegates there, the resolution becomes the state policy of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation. Resolutions of a national nature are forwarded for consideration by the American Farm Bureau delegate body at the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meeting each January.
