Farmers and ranchers from across the nation served as voting delegates at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 96th annual convention, approving resolutions to provide the organization grassroots guidance for 2015.
Delegates reaffirmed that farmers’ proprietary data remain strictly the property of the farmer or rancher when submitted to third parties for analysis and processing and called for common-sense reform in endangered species protection legislation. Also on the list for 2015, delegates opposed the current cap on agricultural labor visas under the H2-B program and state efforts to dictate out-of-state, farm-level production practices.
And Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) delegates led an effort to firmly establish that cattle producers should drive decisions on the future of the beef checkoff and its marketing and research programs.