One of the most important parts of the Annual Meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation is the annual meeting of the voting delegates. These folks got down to business early this morning and will hopefully conclude this afternoon with a new policy book. This is grassroots policy making in action!
The leadership is at the head table with all the voting delegates in front of them. There are multiple screens showing the policies being debated and corrections or changes are made live. After votes are cast the final version goes to the staff who will prepare a final book of the new policies.
We’re supposed to get a summary of what got passed and a look to the future for AFBF policy in the coming year at a press conference following today’s meetings. We’ll have that for you later in the day.