Events

2013 Annual Meeting Highlights

2013 Foundation Online Auction

Thanks to our generous bidders and donors as well as a $15,000 match from Nationwide, and a $1,000 donation from Shamrock Leathers, the 2013 Online Auction raised over $40,000 for agricultural literacy.

 

 

 

Foundation’s Night Out

The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s “Night Out at the Grand Ole Opry House” brought more than 2700 Farm Bureau members together to enjoy a night of music and prizes.

DuPont Pioneer sponsored a My American Farm Kiosk drawing during the show. The kiosk was won by North Carolina.

Chevrolet, the title sponsor of the event, provided a Super Bowl package raffle! The winner received tickets to the Super Bowl, a hotel stay and flight.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at this event! See our photos below.

2012 Flapjack Fundraiser

The 2013 Flapjack Fundraiser was a huge success! Thanks to all of our sponsors.

A Special Thank you to:

Farm Bureau Bank for providing each attendee with their own copy of the Book of the Year: “The Guardian Team.”

Nationwide for providing entertainment by Jack Hanna.

And Dairy Management Inc. and Purity Dairy for their donation of milk.

The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture also made a monetary donation to a local library along with Boyds Mills Press that donated copies of the book of the year: “The Guardian Team.”

 

View Photos of the Foundation’s Night Out
and the Flapjack Fundraiser

 

AFBFA Tradeshow Booth

We hope you were able to join us in the tradeshow during the 2013 Annual Meeting! We talked about My American Farm, Agriculture’s Lasting Heritage and our new Pillars of Agricultural Literacy! If you have more to tell us, email us at foundation@fb.org.

 

AFBF YF&R Committee Volunteers

On Friday, Jan. 11, the AFBF YF&R Committee volunteered at a local elementary and middle school in Nashville Tennessee. The group that went to the middle school brought with them the Foundation’s newest Middle School Unit Feeding Minds Cultivating Growth and the group that went to the elementary school brought the Guardian Team Educator Guide. To hear more about this story, look for our Volunteering E-newsletter. Sign up here.