Monday, January 17, 2011

Mike White re-elected as Western Region representative for AFBF board

LAS CRUCES— Michael White, a farmer from Dexter, was re-elected to the board of directors for the American Farm Bureau Federation as a Western Regional representative.
White grows alfalfa, barley and corn for dairies on the east side of the state and has a long history with the American Farm Bureau Federation, having served for five years previously as a regional representative for the nations’ largest farm and ranch organization.  As a regional representative he also sits on the AFBF International Trade Advisory Committee.
"The thirteen Western state region of AFBF has very crucial and distinct issues that affect our agriculture industry, and being selected to be one of the five representatives from the West on the AFBF Board is an honor that is very humbling, and I look forward to the challenges ahead,” says White.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Chaves County Farm and Livestock Bureau and has served as president of that organization.  He has been a member of the N.M. Cotton Advisory Committee at New Mexico State University and was an alternate to the National Cotton Board. He served for 12 years on the Dexter Consolidated School Board and was elected president of that body.  Mr. White was also on the board of directors for the Albuquerque Production Credit Association. He is treasurer of the Midway Assembly of God Church and is on the board of the Midway Youth and Family Development Center.
As President of the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau White spearheads the organization’s legislative agenda in New Mexico and in the U.S. Congress.  He presides over an organization with 30 county affiliates and more than 15,300 family-members statewide.

 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Revisit this group next year to see if they have done anything. My bet is that the same issues are unsolved and they are still talking about doing something about them!