Nc Farm Bureau Federation Inc

“Regular members have the right to vote. Regular member has a financial interest in an agriculturally related business. Associate members shall not be eleigible to hold office and shall not be entitled to vote in the meetings of proceedings.”

“The regular members at the county annual meetings designate a voting delegate to attend the organization annual meeting and vote on the business of the organization. Nc farm bureau has 600 voting delegates and they are allocated to 100 county farm bureau based on total membership”

“The 990 is prepared from the audited financial statements provided by our independent external auditing firm. The audited financial statements are reviewed with the audit committee and presented to the governing body for approval.”

“Annually the governing body signs a compliance form that states there has been no instance of conflict of interest.”

“The ceo and all employee compensation is reviewed by the budget committee annually. The budget committee is made up of three independent individuals from the govening body. The ceo compensation is voted on for approval by the governing body based on the budget committee recommendation.”

“Other officers and key employee compensation is reviewed and approved by the budget committee annually. The budget committee is made up of three individual members of the governing body. They are independent.”

“The governing documents and conflict of interest policy are not made public. The financial statements are published in one of our publications, the leader, and mailed to over 3,000 members. In addition, the leader is posted to our website for anyone to view. At the organizations annual meeting a financial report is presented to voting delegates.”

“Field service and ag in the classroom-ncfb field services promotes and coordinates program activities with 100 county farm bureaus. Field services works with programs to foster the farm bureau mission. The following are programs field services works with. Safety program is executed by county volunteers. Instituite for future agriculture leaders, had high school rising seniors attend the academy. Students visited ncsu and nca&t universities to experience ag related education opportunities. Other involvements include the north carolina animal ag coalition,farm city week, food check out week, farm heritage days, ag hauling handbook just to mention a few. Assist the ag in the classroom (aitc) staff with its programs-aitc sponsored events. Over 1,400 educators were trained and over 50,000 students were taught aitc curriculm. Aitc sponsored professional development to 1,000 student teachers at 3 universities. Supported the lead and women leadership committees.”

“Public policy and legislative-nc farm bureau is a true grassroots organization, highly stressing member involvement in policy development and implementation. All ncfb policy positions begin with recommendations from the 100 county annual meetings, which are reviewed by about 120 members at the state resolutions committee meeting. The resolutions are voted on by 600 voting delegates representing the entire state at our annual meeting. Ncfb has approximately 585 members serving on 21 state advisory committees. These committees meet at least twice a year. One of these meetings is our policy review day when over 400 people attend. Ncfb had 10 members serve on american farm bureau commodity committees. Ncfb distributed the capital roundup (legislative newsletter) to over 1,500 members weekly during the legislative season.”

“Publications-farm bureau magazine is published quarterly and mailed to approximately 600,000 members. The leader reaches 3,500 members monthly. Website and internet technology and social media are utilized to provide members better access to programs. Web portals are established for some programs. Ncfb post "daily briefing" on its website focusing on current issues relevant to our membership. Ncfb maintains active facebook, google +, twitter, youtube and flicker pages. These medium are frequently used to publicize ncfb and county legislative events and promote action alerts. Ncfb's youtube has moer than 600 videos.”

“Pension & post retirement changes 110,261”