Who We Are
The Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation is the state’s largest organization of farmers and ranchers with over 11,000 members across all 23 Wyoming counties.
Strong counties and engaged members are the heart of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation. Together, we continue to grow a united voice for agriculture across Wyoming.
The Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation is a member-driven, grassroots organization supported by dues from farmers and ranchers across the state. Our work starts at the local level, where individual members identify issues affecting agriculture and bring them forward for discussion. Those conversations move through the county, district, and state levels to shape the policies that guide the Federation’s efforts. Issues with national implications may also advance for consideration at the national level.
The Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation remains committed to the foundational principles of our nation: constitutional government, a competitive enterprise system, private property rights, and individual freedom. We believe citizens have the right to organize, speak collectively, and make decisions through open discussion, debate, and the will of the majority.
Mission
Strengthening Wyoming agriculture, enhancing Wyoming communities.
Vision
We envision a prosperous Wyoming with thriving agriculture, communities, and families.
Core Values
Integrity: We believe integrity is our foundation. We strive to be trustworthy, authentic, and transparent. We hold ourselves accountable in every action and decision.
Advocacy: We believe in protecting private property rights, upholding constitutional government, and advancing a free market economy. With a commitment to individual freedom, we advocate through engagement in the legislative, regulatory, legal, and consumer arenas.
Service: We believe in service through continuing education, servant leadership, and community engagement to strengthen the places we call home.
Dedication: We believe our dedication to agriculture is the foundation that inspires us to sacrifice time and energy to secure its values, lifestyle, and legacy. We are rooted in our heritage to guide our future.
Family: We believe family is the foundation of a healthy society. The Farm Bureau family is a natural extension of that foundation, welcoming members of all ages. We protect agricultural legacies and lifestyles and develop opportunities for future generations.
Leadership: We believe leaders develop through opportunity, education, mentorship, and networking. We empower our members to embrace leadership opportunities in their communities and beyond.
The Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation’s Policy Development Process
Farm Bureau is a grassroots federation whose strength comes from its members at the local level. The organization operates within a framework of policies that originate in the counties, reflecting a wide range of issues that impact anyone in Wyoming who is connected to agriculture—directly or indirectly.
The policy advocacy process begins when a member introduces a resolution in their county Farm Bureau. Members review the facts, discuss potential solutions, and determine recommendations. Any resolution that is adopted locally advances to the district, state, and, when appropriate, national levels for further discussion.
At the state level, Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation standing committees evaluate these resolutions and make recommendations for the full voting delegate body. Resolutions approved by the delegates are added to the policy book and guide the Federation’s work for the year ahead.
Serving Wyoming's Farm and Ranch Families
Our work begins with the ideas and concerns shared around county tables across Wyoming. Those grassroots conversations guide everything we do—from policy development to member engagement. We’ve captured these achievements and the value of your membership in our 2025 Annual Report.pdf.
History of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation
Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation is a unique agriculture organization. It was created by its members and continues to be operated by the members, who now number over 11,000. In 1920, food availability was a major concern of the American public and the highlight of agriculture’s challenges. World War I prompted the development of Farm Bureau organizations to help secure greater food production. An early historical account said, “These early community and county organizations of farm people did a great service in adding to the war food supply for the government Food Program in Wyoming.”
Aside from food production, Farm Bureau organizations were born with the main objective of solving problems involving “livestock and crop production, marketing, homemaking, training of boys and girls, and development of local leadership” at the community, county and state levels, the historical account also said.
The Agricultural Extension Service was fundamental in organizing and directing the efforts of the developing Farm Bureaus, most of which began in the late teens and early 1920s. Farm Bureau organizations provided an agricultural resource for the Extension Service to deliver producers the latest information gained from research in the Department of Agriculture, Ag Experiment stations, and colleges of agriculture. Albert E. Bowman, the state Ag Extension director of that time, can be credited with starting the Farm Bureau in Wyoming. He traveled the state, met with agricultural producers and other organizations, and attended national meetings.
By the fall of 1919, eleven county Farm Bureaus had been established in Wyoming. The American Farm Bureau was founded the same year.The first Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation statewide meeting was held in January 1920. The work of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation has formed a solid foundation of agriculture resources and service for our nation today and in the future.