Good Time of Year to Review Your Grassroots Policies

This is an important time of year for farmers. After all, in December, your needs and concerns were addressed on the delegate floor of the Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. (Click here to see IFB's new policies.) Then in January, your grassroots wants are sent on to the national level at the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meeting. That's why this is an excellent time for you to get to know how policies are formed - by examining policy #2, Activation and Status of Resolutions: 

"Policies of the Illinois Agricultural Association are subject to review at any official meeting of the voting delegates. Resolutions adopted at this annual meeting state the current position of the Illinois Agricultural Association. The voting delegates authorize the renumbering, placing, and arranging of the resolutions adopted at this annual meeting with the appropriate subject matter for publication in the current resolutions booklet." (Download this policy.)

Get ready to start the new year off on a good foot and learn more about the policy development that directly impacts you. Call your County Farm Bureau and ask how you can get involved in policy development.