Ozaukee County dairy farmer, Mark Mayer, was selected as the winner of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmer and Agriculturist (YFA) Achievement Award at the organization’s 95th Annual Meeting on December 7.
Mayer who lives in Fredonia has a dairy farm and farms 550 acres. He first rented facilities to farm until purchasing his current farm in 2006. He attended Lakeshore Technical College for dairy herd management.
Mayer is the vice president of the Ozaukee County YFA committee, serves on the Ozaukee County Farm Bureau board of directors and is also active in the county policy development committee. He also serves on his local fire department.
Farm Bureau’s Achievement Award is a contest that awards farmers between the ages of 18 and 35, who have excelled in their farming career, understand current issues affecting agriculture, and have shown leadership and involvement in Farm Bureau and other civic organizations.
Mayer will compete in the national Achievement Award contest at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 96th Annual Meeting next month in San Diego.
He also qualifies to attend a trip to Washington D.C. in 2015. He will be a guest of the WFBF at next year’s WFBF YFA Conference, and of GROWMARK, Inc. at its annual meeting in Chicago this August. FABCO Equipment Inc. provided 40 hours use of a FABCO skid-steer loader, and Rural Mutual Insurance provided a free financial plan to the Achievement Award winner.
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