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
2025 policy development timeline
Winter-Spring, 2025
County Resolution Meeting
Spring-Summer, 2025
County Annual Meeting
September 30, 2025
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 21-22, 2025
NDFB Annual Meeting, Fargo
Open Resolutions Committee and NDFB House of Delegates followed by Focus Meeting of NDFB Policy Committees
January 9-12, 2026
American Farm Bureau Federation’s Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX
January-June 2026
Discover new resolutions to implement into policy