California Farm Bureau Annual Meeting
CAFB Annual Meeting
California Farm Bureau held their 107th Annual Meeting in Orange County on December 7-9, 2025. CA Young Farmers & Ranchers held their Annual Conference at the same location on December 6-7, 2025.
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California Farm Bureau President Celebrates
Accomplishments in Annual Address
California Farm Bureau President Shannon Douglass applauded the organization’s principles and accomplishments this year in an address delivered today at the Farm Bureau’s 107th Annual Meeting in Anaheim.
Douglass, who is a diversified farmer and rancher in Glenn County, acknowledged challenges farmers face while expressing her conviction that Farm Bureau’s advocacy efforts will bring about positive changes.
“Despite all the challenges we have in the world, all the challenges we have in agriculture, we still have a tremendously bright future,” Douglass said. “I believe that it’s because of Farm Bureau that the future of California agriculture looks bright.”
The Farm Bureau president highlighted several of the organization’s achievements this year, including work by its policy advocates to reduce utility rates and to impact state laws pertaining to farmland conservation and protecting livestock from coyotes.
“I think our voices were heard,” said Douglass, who was elected in 2023 to lead the Farm Bureau.
Douglass also applauded the Farm Bureau’s decision this year to take a principled stand in support of the farm workforce.
In August, the Farm Bureau president and California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas coauthored an opinion piece in The New York Times advocating that a pathway to legal status be created for undocumented farmworkers.
“We simply talked about why this issue is important, why it’s important not only on our farms and businesses from a business perspective, but why it’s important from a people perspective—and how we value and appreciate the people that work on our farms and are involved in our communities and our families,” Douglass said. “We are going to continue fighting on the issue.”
“We’ve got over 100 years of history—a whole century of work that’s been laid out before us,” Douglass said. “All that investment allows us to look ahead at a really bright future.”
Central Coast Young Farmer & Rancher is Runner-up in Discussion Meet
Early in the YF&R and Farm Bureau meetings, the annual Discussion Meet contest was held and Jynel Gularte, from Gonzales, was the first-runner up in the meet, receiving a $2,000 cash award. Jynel is controller and compliance officer for Rincon Farms and is the current Chair of Central Coast Young Farmers & Ranchers
Prior to the CAFB Annual Meeting, the Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Leadership Conference was held and several awards were handed out. The Central Coast YF&R Committee was honored for Harvest for All projects; committee members volunteered approximately 700 hours, donated more than $60,000 and gave 172,383 pounds of food to organizations including the Monterey County Food Bank, FarmLink Project and Brighter Bites.
