The Audrain County Farm Bureau held its annual meeting and dinner at the Audrain County 4-H Center on Thursday, Aug. 24, with a special guest from the state board.
Dana Lane, North Director at …
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The Audrain County Farm Bureau held its annual meeting and dinner at the Audrain County 4-H Center on Thursday, Aug. 24, with a special guest from the state board.
Dana Lane, North Director at Large, for the Missouri Farm Bureau addressed the crowd gathered, and most of the discussion centered around property rights and the issues associated with the Tiger Connector project that threatens to take some local farmland through eminent domain. Lane operates a beef operation with her husband near Brookfield in Linn County.
“At the Farm Bureau we are fighting hard for your rights and your property,” Lane said. “I know that is as important to you all in this area as it is to everyone in the state. We have not forgotten that.”
Lane talked about some of the legislative priorities that didn’t quite make it last year but are on the radar for this year like healthcare plans that are affordable for rural Missouri.
“That is definitely a priority again this year to get that health plan across the finish line,” Lane said.
Attendees were handed a questionnaire and resolutions were later discussed. Lane said talking about legislative priorities is important because of the Farm Bureau’s lobbying strength.
“We really do want your input and we want to know what you’re thinking about,” Lane said. “Because legislators in the Capitol want to know what the Farm Bureau thinks.”
Lane said one of her big responsibilities as a state board member is education and promotion of the Bureau’s efforts. She talked about the Thank a Farmer event held in the spring and two upcoming events that involved teachers.
On Sept. 18 the Bureau will host the Missouri Ag in the Classroom Conference for teachers.
“If you are a teacher or you know a teacher it’s a great way to come and learn things that can be brought back to the classroom and added back to the curriculum so we get our kids familiar with what ag is all about,” Lane said.
The other event is on Oct. 16, on a farm south of Kansas City where teachers will get to tour a farm.
“Another opportunity to get them on the farm and see what it’s like and they can go back to their home schools and maybe share the message a little bit better,” Lane said.
