Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

Leadership development - informed leadership is the starting place for accomplishing our mission. Leadership development opportunities are provided for farmer leaders through our state and national annual meetings and statewide conferences (presidents, farm bureau women, and young farmers and ranchers). Numerous other special issue-specific meetings provide leadership training opportunities for our farmer leaders. Staff hold local training sessions with new county presidents, county boards and committee members. Tfbf also cooperates with agriculture groups in regional leadership training programs.

Public policy - the foremost mission of tfbf is to represent the interest of farmers at local, state, national, and international levels of government. Grassroots public policy is developed by working with farmer leaders within our 95 county farm bureaus. Tfbf staff coordinates with farmer leaders to communicate and defend our policy in legislative and regulatory bodies at local, state, and national levels. We work with other state farm bureaus through our national affiliate, the american farm bureau federation, to represent our farmer members' interests on the international level. Every activity promoted by tfbf has the objective of supporting and enhancing tfbf's public policy efforts.