About Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

The Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation has a membership of more than 650,000 family members and is the largest state Farm Bureau in the nation. However, when it began in June of 1921, the membership was small and the services it offered were few. The agricultural leaders who formed it, operated mostly on faith that someday they would have the opportunity to provide a better way of life for rural Tennessee.



The Tennessee Farm Bureau has provided many services for the membership of the organization. It began as an organization lobbying for the betterment of its members. Much of the legislation we have today is because of the Farm Bureau and its early efforts. The organization continues to work with agricultural legislation and has full-time lobbyists working in Nashville. The Public Affairs Department works daily providing help for members in areas such as private property rights, taxation, regulations and other legislative issues facing the membership.



The organization also provides many services for the membership including affordable life, health, auto and property insurance for rural Tennessee. Other benefits of membership include tax services, property protection reward programs, satellite marketing services, livestock marketing services through the Tennessee Livestock Producers organization, young farmer and Farm Bureau women’s programs, and many other farm related activities.



One of the state's largest and oldest circulated farm publications, The Tennessee Farm Bureau News, is published by the organization six times a year and goes to the organization's farmer members with the latest ag news on farming and ag issues. In 2002, Tennessee Home & Farm magazine was added to the organization's publication list and goes to all of the 650,000-plus members of Tennessee Farm Bureau. It is mailed four times a year and includes interesting human interest stories, travel information, recipes and much more in a full color, national honor winning magazine. There is also a weekly TV program, Farm Digest, produced at the headquarters office, shown across the state as well as a daily radio program aired on the Tennessee Radio Network (TRN).