AFBF, AG CONNECT Expo Team Up: 2011 Co-Location Set for Atlanta

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and AG CONNECT Expo 2011 announced today they are teaming up in 2011 with the co-location of the 2011 AFBF Annual Meeting and AG CONNECT Expo 2011 and, both to be held in early January 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

The American Farm Bureau is the nation's largest farm organization, and AG CONNECT Expo is North America's new global agriculture exhibition. AFBF's 2011 Annual Meeting will be Jan. 9-12, while the AG CONNECT Expo runs Jan. 8-10, with “Preview Day” on Jan. 7 by special admission.

The co-location will provide Farm Bureau members attending the 2011 AFBF Annual Meeting with the added value of convenient access to AG CONNECT Expo show floor on January 8-10. The 5,000-plus attendees expected at the AFBF Annual Meeting will have the opportunity to participate in an event that offers the best in technological advances and showcases innovative agricultural equipment, inputs, components and services. This unique opportunity for Farm Bureau members – a one-time exception in AG CONNECT'S standard registration - became a reality after AG CONNECT Expo organizers approached AFBF about teaming up in Atlanta, according to AFBF President Bob Stallman.

Is EFCA Frankenstein's Monster?

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a.k.a “card check,” is dead, that is, for now!

Over the past three and a half years AEM and an extensive coalition of business interests have waged an unyielding campaign to stop organized labor's top legislative priority from becoming law. EFCA would not only eliminate secret ballot elections when workers decide whether or not to form a union but also mandate that if a contract agreement cannot be reached in 120 days, a government bureaucrat would step in to set your wage rate, benefits package and work rules. Despite the most pro-organized labor Congress in a generation, I am pleased to report our efforts have succeeded.