Eminent domain, wolves, navigable rivers, water laws, protecting northwest water, protecting intellectual rights in trade agreements, national animal identification and some other subjects important to various farm bureau members were discussed and adopted at the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation meeting this year.

A couple of the most contentious resolutions surrounded who could be a voting member of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, and how many delegates a county could get.

Currently it depends on the number of members per county. The change stated: “The number of delegates for each member county Farm Bureau shall be determined once for each membership year using the number of agriculture acres in a member country and the close of the immediately preceding membership year.”

For example, if the county had less than 10,000 agriculture acres, it would receive one voting delegate; a county that has between 10,001 acres to 50,000 acres would have two.