Ogle County Farm Bureau

Member services & information activities - we provide a monthly publication for our voting members to keep them informed on organization activities and programs, public policy issues affecting their farm operations and initiatives undertaken by the organization in representing their interests. We provide a quarterly publication to our associate members keeping them informed on membership benefits and services available and promoting programs and activities of the organization. We coordinate various newsletters, member information and education, programs and service activities with affiliate entities and other agricultural and community organizations to provide programming of our members. Various times in the year we provide travel opportunities for members, participate in community events, sponsor community activities and provide scholarships for young people to pursue educational opportunities in agriculture.

Public policy - we annually coordinate public policy activities in ogle coutny encompassing issues on a national, state and local level. Locally we host various member programs to gather their imput on various issues and examine organizational policy as it relates to those issues; we also survey a portion of our members randomly to gauge their opinions on current issues affecting ogle county, our organization and agriculture. We are involved in local policy issues by coordinating educational programs for public officals, participating in public policy discussions by invitation of public bodies and gathering member imput on policy positions. On a national and state level we coordinate elected official contacts through our membership to engage them in the public policy arena and educate them on legislation and legislative initiatives that will affect their businesses, communities and lives. We also host public officals programs to discuss legislative initiatives with our organization leadership and members.