The American Farm Bureau Federation was founded in 1919 to act as a collective voice for American farmers. About this time, farmers began to increased physical and financial difficulties to fight, that more people leave rural areas for the cultivation and development of cities. With less to help people, companies run the daily operations more difficult. In addition, more food will be shipped to meet the demands of increasingly booming cities. Remember that in 1940, provided a farmer about 10.7 persons. In 2000, if a farmer 100.
Thanks to the Farm Bureau, farmers would press for government regulation, where commercial services and increase the prosperity of the farms in the face of these challenges. As a business organization, the Farm Bureau had more influence than the voice of an individual farmer.
Farm Bureau is organized in the county, state and national chapters. Members pay contributions to a local, to solve the regional problems to work. Farm Bureau is free of political ties and the government and is run entirely by volunteers. Some of the key questions of the national Farm Bureau addressed, including the advancement of technologies in agriculture increased issues of oversupply, market policy and advocacy, prices and demand for organic products and organic agricultural techniques.