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Rockingham farmer re-elected to Farm Bureau board

Beef cattle producer Stephen L. Saufley of Port Republic was re-elected Dec. 2 to a sixth term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors.

Elections of directors were held at the organization’s 2009 Annual Convention in Richmond.

Saufley chairs the VFBF Rural Health Advisory Committee and serves on the Investment and Finance Committee. As a member of the board of directors he will represent Farm Bureau producer members in Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Highland, Nelson, Rockbridge and Rockingham counties.

He is also a past president of the Rockingham County Farm Bureau and continues to serve on that organization’s board of directors.

Saufley is a graduate of Nashville Auto Diesel College and has been farming since 1970. He is a past member of the Rockingham Petroleum Cooperative’s board of directors and has worked as a school bus driver for 39 years. He is active in the Blue Ridge Church of Christ in Fishersville, where he serves as a prison ministry team leader and small group leader.

With nearly 150,000 members in 88 county Farm Bureaus, VFBF is Virginia’s largest farmers’ advocacy group. Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, nonpartisan, voluntary organization committed to protecting Virginia’s farms and ensuring a safe, fresh and locally grown food supply.