VOTING DELEGATES

In accordance with the membership rules, current year memberships are accepted and credited for the current membership year through the last state office business day in October, which this year is Friday, October 31. After that date, the state office will advise you of the number of voting delegates your county will be entitled to for the annual meeting.  

A new software system in our membership department will allow us the opportunity to handle the submission of the county delegate lists online going forward.  The necessary information regarding the process to submit voting delegates is being communicated to county office secretaries. Voting delegate information must be submitted by close of business, Wednesday, November 26. Please reach out to your area program director if you need assistance with this new process. 

Please register your voting delegates and alternates for the annual meeting. The online registration site closes at 12 Noon (ET), November 26, 2025.

Any county Farm Bureau planning to use proxies must still elect the number of voting delegates your county is entitled to send to the annual meeting, then each delegate must sign a proxy and give it to a voting delegate from your county who will be attending the annual meeting. These proxies must be brought to the annual meeting by the delegates who will be voting them. At least one delegate from your county must attend the annual meeting in order for any proxies to be used. Under the rules, you cannot give proxies to anyone who is not a member of your county Farm Bureau, and under a 1982 amendment to the bylaws, a voting delegate present may cast no more than four proxy votes. Please DO NOT return signed proxy forms to the state office, but have them brought to the annual meeting by the delegate authorized to vote the proxy. Proxy forms will be available to download from this page after October 15.