American Farm Bureau Federation

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has announced the keynote speakers for its 2017 annual convention and IDEAg trade show. Read More »

A recent poll suggests that more than half of the registered voters in America strongly believe in free trade and support the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPP), the largest regional trade agreement between America and 11 Pacific Rim nations. Read More »

The Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge by the American Farm Bureau Federation received 355 applications from 39 states. Read More »

The American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Program is funding the "Our Food Link" grants for 10 farm bureaus that will each receive $750.  Read More »

The American Farm Bureau Federation produced a video at the end of June highlighting the frustrations of American farmers dealing with labor shortages in the important harvesting season.  Read More »

The My American Farm Outreach Grant winners were announced at the end of May, with winning schools in urban areas performing an outreach program with at least 400 elementary students using resources found at myamericanfarm.org. Read More »

A plan for protecting the family farm was outlined by Dave Specht, founder of Advising Generations and the author of “The Farm Whisper,” during the American Farm Bureau Federation's 97th Annual Convention.  Read More »

Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill testified in front of the Senate Agriculture subcommittee in early April on the importance of rural development programs in communities across America. Read More »

The Spring Market Basket Survey, an informal survey conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation, found food prices among 16 common foods were down 1 percent from last year.  Read More »

Failure by the U.S. Senate last month to pass a genetically modified organisms (GMO) labeling bill doesn’t mean the fight to make it happen is over, Andrew Walmsley, director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), said. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Agriculture decided last week to allow commodity checkoff funds to be used to help market American farm products in Cuba.  Read More »

The Worldwide Threat Assessment in the U.S. Intelligence of Community annual report was released last week, detailing a wide variety of terror threats around the world. Read More »

Organizers are looking for presentation and workshop speaker submissions the 2017 American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention and IDEAg Trade Show set for Jan. 6-11. Read More »

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall recently voiced his support for Sen. Pat Roberts' (R-KS) labeling bill for GMOs in the marketplace. Read More »

Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, was awarded the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Golden Plow, the AFBF’s highest honor for lawmakers, during the Farm Bureau Advocacy Conference in February.  Read More »

An American Farm Bureau Federation economic analysis reports that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will boost farm income by $4.4 billion in the United States after it removes barriers for agricultural exports to 11 Pacific Rim countries. Read More »

A bill introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) to pre-empt state GMO labeling mandates received support in a vote by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Board of Directors.  Read More »

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) strongly supports a legislative proposal introduced by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) for voluntary biotech labeling laws that would be consistent throughout the country. Read More »

The monarch butterfly population in America has recently seen a sharp decrease, leading to the start of the Monarch Collaborative group to improve monarch butterfly habitat.  Read More »

Public policy goals for 2016 were recently approved by the American Farm Bureau Federation board during its 97th annual convention in Orlando, Florida.  Read More »