The longstanding tradition of the Louisiana Farm Bureau holding its annual convention in New Orleans is not happening this year. Under normal circumstances, 1500 members and their families would congregate, but Farm Bureau spokesperson Avery Davidson says the 98th annual convention will be replaced by an event that looks much different.
“The Louisiana Farm Bureau will still hold a business meeting, possibly a virtual meeting and then the board of directors, once they are elected, will meet the following day in a physical location,” said Davidson.
This year, a new Farm Bureau president will be named as in February, outgoing president Ronnie Anderson announced his retirement after 31 years of leadership.
Davidson believes the only other disruption to the annual New Orleans convention’s near-century-long history happened in 2005.
“I think the last time that this happened was for Hurricane Cindy, in which there had to be a shortened version of the convention, which was a one day event,” said Davidson.
During the convention, farmers and ranchers get to discuss policy that impacts them on the state and federal levels. Davidson says the Farm Bureau is ironing out the details of how that policy discussion will take place this year.
“We’ve got a couple of other conference calls and Zoom meetings, as we’ve all gotten used to doing, planned for the rest of this week and once all of that is finalized, we’ll let everybody know what we’re doing, when we’re doing, and how we’re doing,” said Davidson.
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