Accounting Assistant Summary: This position is a support staff for the accounting department and works closely with the Director of Finance, Controller and Accountant – County Services. The purpose of this position is to support on all financial affairs including reviewing interim financial statements for county Farm Bureaus, maintaining the organizations overall accounting systems, procedures, and [...]
Growing Forward: Danielle Daum, Highlands County March 2023 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Danielle Daum Women’s Leadership Committee Chair Danielle Daum has spent her whole life immersed in agriculture. Having grown up on her family’s caladium farm in Highlands County, Happiness Farms Inc., she has been involved in every aspect of the operation. Danielle is the third generation [...]
The Role of Farmers and Ranchers in Carbon Economy March FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Carbon sequestration has been taken a step further with the development of a carbon economy. Low carbon economy refers to the ecological economy based on low energy consumption and low pollution. The concept behind the creating and trading of carbon credits is to [...]
District 2 Field Representative (North Florida) Florida Farm Bureau Federation is the Sunshine State’s oldest and largest general agriculture organization. We pride ourselves in being the voice of Florida’s farmers and ranchers and keeping their traditions, values and heritage alive for generations to come. Since our founding in 1941, the District Field Representative has been [...]
District 5 Field Representative Florida Farm Bureau Federation is the Sunshine State’s oldest and largest general agriculture organization. We pride ourselves in being the voice of Florida’s farmers and ranchers and keeping their traditions, values and heritage alive for generations to come. Since our founding in 1941, the District Field Representative has been an integral [...]
District 4 Field Representative Florida Farm Bureau Federation is the Sunshine State’s oldest and largest general agriculture organization. We pride ourselves in being the voice of Florida’s farmers and ranchers and keeping their traditions, values and heritage alive for generations to come. Since our founding in 1941, the District Field Representative has been an integral [...]
Nominate A Local Farmer/ Rancher for the 2023 CARES Award February FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Florida Farm Bureau’s CARES program publicly recognizes Florida farmers and ranchers who demonstrate exemplary efforts to protect Florida’s natural resources by implementing Best Management Practices. Recipients are awarded a This Farm CARES sign to demonstrate to all Floridians that agricultural producers are [...]
Growing Forward: Steven Dicks, Columbia County February 2023 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Steven Dicks Columbia County President, District 3 Farming has been a part of Steven Dicks’ family since August 3, 1900, when his great-grandfather purchased his first piece of land. Growing up on a 160-acre farm just ten miles south of Lake City, his family grew [...]
Director of Field Services Summary: This position will coordinate and supervise the activities of the Federation’s Field Staff, the Young Farmer and Rancher Leadership program, the State Women’s Committee, Membership and the records necessary to submit to American Farm Bureau, county Farm Bureau leadership development and training and other organizational activities as assigned. This position will [...]
Growing Forward: Olivia Pope January 2023 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Olivia Pope YF&R State Leadership Group, District 8 Olivia Pope is a proud fourth-generation agriculturalist in the rural town of Pahokee. Her great-grandfather moved their family to Palm Beach County in 1926 after he worked as a produce salesman and realized the abundant farming opportunities. Since then, [...]
