Kansas Farm Bureau's 106th Annual Meeting
Published
8/21/2024
Saturday, Dec. 7 through Monday, Dec. 9
All events are hosted at the Manhattan Conference Center unless otherwise noted.
Saturday, Dec.7
4-6 p.m. - Drop off items for the Silent Auction. If you have items to donate, let us know here.
6 p.m. - KFB's Foundations' Fundraiser Event
Sunday, Dec.8
7:30 a.m. - Vespers
7:45 a.m. - Registration and Silent Auction opens
8:30 a.m. - General Session
- County Farm Bureau awards
- Membership Traveling Trophy
- Friends of Agriculture awards
- Natural Resources award
- Media awards
- Partnership award
- YF&R awards
- Rural Minds Matter award
- Keynote
9 a.m. - Tradeshow opens
10:30 a.m. - County delegate photos
11:50 a.m. - Open discussion of resolutions
Noon - 1:20 p.m. - Lunch in the Little Apple/YF&R Lunch/Coordinator's Lunch/Resolutions Committee Lunch/Leaders Circle
3 p.m. - Silent Auction closes
3:30 p.m. - Policy Update at K-State Student Union's Forum Hall
4-6 p.m. - Pick up Silent Auction purchases
5:30 p.m. - Reception and county delegate photos
6:30 p.m. - Banquet
- KFB President Joe Newland
- Distinguished Service Award
- Farm Families of the Year awards
- Leadership KFB recognition
- Casten Fellows announced
Sunday's Keynote
From Fields to Policy: Ensuring Affordable Food and Agricultural Freedom
Farm Bureau members of Kansas will hear from Diane Sullivan, co-founder of Equitable Spaces, who is a mother, grandmother and anti-hunger activist from Massachusetts. Driven by her own family's experience with hunger, homelessness and poverty, she works to ensure community members with lived and living experiences have a voice in the ongoing food-policy debates that directly impact their lives by driving up the cost of food through her work at Equitable Spaces. Diane’s journey from a SNAP beneficiary to a policy director in Massachusetts has equipped her with unique insights into food policy debates.
Diane will be joined by Brian Klippenstein who recently served as Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s senior advisor and played a key role in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Landing Team during President Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. Previously, he was the executive director of Protect the Harvest, advocating for affordable food options. Brian’s roots are in Northwest Missouri, where he grew up on a 5,000-acre beef cattle farm. A graduate of George Washington University and former captain of the varsity rowing team, Brian has extensive experience on Capitol Hill, including 26 years of service and a tenure as chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Kit Bond.
The duo will discuss how important freedom to operate on farms and ranches is vital not only to agriculturists, but also low-income families who are often the ones most hurt when ballot initiatives are implemented that tell ranchers how to raise livestock.