CONTRA COSTA COUNTY FARM BUREAU

The Contra Costa County Farm Bureau leads, educates and unites the down-to-earth goodness of the agricultural community with the, fast-paced, newfangled communities throughout our wonderful county for the benefit of all concerned.

California Farm Bureau Federation was organized in 1919. The purpose of CFBF was to surface, analyze, and solve the problems of farmers and ranchers. By banding together farmers can accomplish much more than by acting alone as individuals. Farm Bureau's roots trace back to the Cooperative Extension System. Today FB and the Cooperative Extension have a close working relationship.

Farm Bureau is a general farm organization which represents 4.2 million farm families nationwide and 75, 000 members California.

Policy Setting: Policy needs are surfaced by members in the county Farm Bureaus; either through county FB's or on Commodity Advisory or Policy Recommendations committees. These proposed policies are presented, discussed, and voted on by delegates at the CFBF Annual Meeting. Issues of national or international interests are passed as recommendations to the AFBF House of Delegates.

Each county FB determines its own dues. Voting members $90, Sustaining member $72

While FB does not affiliate with any political party, it does have a philosophical bias favoring the private competitive enterprise system, private property rights, and that prices should be the result of a free market place and the law of supply and demand. Farm Bureau encourages its members to support candidates with these beliefs for public office.

The president of the AFBF is Bob Stallman. President of the CFBF is Paul Wenger, an almond and walnut grower in Modesto.