Policy Development

NDFB's policy development process provides our members with a mechanism to voice issues and concerns. The future of North Dakota agriculture depends on the integrity of our policy development methods and the success of our implementation process.

Watch this video to learn how individual concerns can become NDFB policy, and ultimately state law through NDFB's grassroots policy development process.

If  YOU believe NDFB needs to take a proactive stand on an issue, please engage yourself in our policy development process. Click on the headers below to reveal tips and examples to help you through the process.

The NDFB Policy Process

County Timeline and Sample Agenda

Resolutions checklist

Sample resolution

Fillable agenda for a county resolutions meeting

Resolution form fillable

Resolution form printable

2026 policy development timeline

Winter-Spring, 2026
County Resolution Meeting

Spring-Summer, 2026
County Annual Meeting

September 30, 2026
Deadline for county Farm Bureaus to submit resolutions to NDFB Bismarck office prior to district resolutions meetings

September 30-October 4
District Resolutions Meetings

November 20-21, 2026
NDFB Annual Meeting, Bismarck

Open Resolutions Committee and NDFB House of Delegates followed by Focus Meeting of NDFB Policy Committees

January 8-12, 2027
American Farm Bureau Federation’s Annual Convention, Charlotte, North Carolina

January-June 2027
Discover new resolutions to implement into policy