Executive Secretary Position Open SUMMARY: Provides administrative and secretarial support to senior management. Handles projects with minimal supervision that may typically be complex and/or confidential in nature. Keeps official corporation records and executes administrative policies determined by or in conjunction with other officials by performing the following duties. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES: Include the following. [...]
Director of Public Relations and Communications Position Open SUMMARY: Manages and administers Public Relations Division. Plans and supervises all public relations and communications activities directed to general public, media and Farm Bureau members. Provides regular public relations counsel and assistance for Farm Bureau volunteers and county Farm Bureau staff members. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Include the [...]
Assistant Director of Government and Community Affairs Position Open SUMMARY: Responsible for advocating, representing and communicating the Florida Farm Bureau Federation policy before state and federal agencies, and local governments in central and south Florida. Facilitate other natural resource, environmental and land use issues as assigned. Provide written and oral reports on meetings and activities [...]
HOW FFB MEMBERS ARE #CULTIVATINGTOMORROW
Cultivating Tomorrow: Madison County Farm Bureau President Richard Terry June 2021 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Madison County Farm Bureau President Richard Terry, left, presented the “George Townsend Good Neighbor Award” to Mrs. Deloris Jones at the Madison County Farm Bureau’s Annual Meeting in 2018. Richard Terry is a Madison County, FL native who has spent his life devoted [...]
New Citrus Family Harvests First Hemp Crop June 2021 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter By Phil Attinger, Staff Writer for midfloridanewspapers.com Two families gathered a week ago to harvest a small crop from a greenhouse, one with potential to be worth a couple of billion dollars in the next couple of years. It’s a crop that Jeff Williams [...]
Scientists Pluck Insects Out of the Sky for Research June 2021 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter A suction trap (center) with several agricultural engineering students with the University of Chicago at Urbana-Champaign. (Photo by Doris Lagos-Kutz, ARS) Glen Hartman and Doris Lagos-Kutz, two scientists with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), are hard at work keeping nuisance insects out [...]
Recent Survey Finds Farming at Top of Important Florida Industries June 2021 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter A recent survey, commissioned by Florida Ag Coalition, found that a sweeping 98% of Floridians consider farming and ranching important. This survey was conducted among registered voters across the state. The consumer’s trust in Florida agriculture is stronger than ever before. [...]
