NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting of the members of Family Farm Alliance will be held on February 23, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time at the Silver Legacy Resort, 407 N Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, to consider, act and/or hear reports on the following:

1. Election of Three Regular Directors.
2. Annual Report to the Membership on 2022 operations.
3. Such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.

Three Directors of the board will be elected at the meeting. The nominees for Regular Directors of the Board of Directors, as selected by the Corporation’s Nominating Committee (Chris Hurd, Patrick O’Toole and Mark Thalacker) are: Mark Hansen (WASHINGTON), Charles Lyall (WASHINGTON), and Don Schwindt (COLORADO).

DATED: November 22, 2022

PLEASE CAST YOUR BALLOT:

In person, by voice vote, at the Family Farm Alliance Annual Meeting at 5:00 p.m. February 23, 2023 at the Silver Legacy Resort in Reno, Nevada.  

If you are a member of the Family Farm Alliance and will not be able to attend the meeting in person, please contact dan@familyfarmalliance.org for a proxy ballot form that you can complete and return to the Family Farm Alliance, below.

Our by-laws require a majority of the membership to vote, either in person or by proxy, for the election to be valid. If you do not expect to be present at the meeting, please complete the form of proxy and mail it to: 

Family Farm Alliance
P.O. Box 216
Klamath Falls, OR 97601

Or scan it to: dan@familyfarmalliance.org

Thanks for your consideration of this matter. See additional information on the annual meeting and conference, below.

America gave up domestic manufacturing over the last several decades leading to global trade deals that resulted in a diminished national security. Are we now headed for a crisis which will lead to the loss of domestic food production, inevitably leading to a complete collapse of our national security?

We cannot continue long-term hypothetical processes that focus primarily on continued conservation and downsizing of Western agriculture. As we teeter on the brink of recession and global famine, the stability of domestic food supply becomes even more pressing.

Our irrigated system of agriculture in the West can provide the most stable food supply in the world –– if we let it.

The 2023 Annual Meeting and Conference is an opportunity for producers, policy makers and water professionals from throughout the West to focus on topics of critical concern. A wide variety of speakers will take on the issues that make a difference to irrigators. Members of Congress and their staff, Administration officials, and representatives from constructive NGOs are regulars on the program.

SAVE THE DATE:
Silver Legacy Resort
February 23-24, 2023
Reno, Nevada

Conference Highlights

• Keynote Presentations

• Bureau of Reclamation Roundtable

• The View from Capitol Hill

• “Farm (Bill) to Fork” – Feb. 24 Working Lunch to discuss the 2023 Farm Bill.
  Led by leaders of the Western Agriculture and Conservation Coalition

Conference agenda coming soon!