Christa Hoffman of Shawano County was selected winner of the 2015 Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmer and Agriculturist Discussion Meet contest at the organization’s 96th Annual Meeting in Wisconsin Dells on December 6.
The Discussion Meet contest is a panel discussion in which Farm Bureau members between the ages of 18 and 35 are judged on their ability to express their ideas and opinions and reach a solution on current issues affecting agriculture.
Hoffman is the Shawano County planner, where she works on land-use, farmland preservation and conservation. She works with local policy makers to develop policy and provides technical assistance on regulations.
Hoffman earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from UW-Madison and a master’s degree in community and organizational leadership from UW-Stevens Point.
Christa and her husband, Brad, live and work on his family’s 150-cow dairy farm. She serves on her county’s brunch on the farm committee and is involved with the Shawano County Farm Bureau’s Young Farmer and Agriculturist program.
Hoffman will compete in the national Discussion Meet contest at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 97th Annual Meeting next month in Orlando. She qualifies for the YFA trip to Washington D.C. in 2016. Midwest Stihl awarded a chainsaw and Rural Mutual Insurance provided a free financial plan. She will be a guest of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation at next year’s WFBF Young Farmer and Agriculturist Conference, and a special guest at the annual meeting of GROWMARK, Inc. in Chicago in August.
Other state finalists in the Discussion Meet were: Ryan Klussendorf of Taylor County, Josh Schenk of Green County and Nate Zimdars of Fond du Lac County.
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