Michigan Farm Bureau recently announced the winners of this year’s Champions of Excellence Awards, acknowledging county Farm Bureaus’ efforts toward engaging their membership and their innovative means of doing so.
Altogether this year 37 county Farm Bureaus applied for a total of 45 Champions awards in two updated categories: Grassroots and Involvement, each going above and beyond creating innovative and effective member programming.
Counties were also evaluated on their involvement statistics throughout the recently concluded membership year.
Here are our 2021 Champions of Excellence winners, by district:
Grassroots
- District 1: Cass County Farm Bureau
- District 2: Jackson County Farm Bureau
- District 3: Washtenaw County Farm Bureau
- District 4: Ionia County Farm Bureau
- District 5: Clinton County Farm Bureau
- District 6: Lapeer County Farm Bureau
- District 7: Mecosta County Farm Bureau
- District 8: Isabella County Farm Bureau
- District 9: Mason County Farm Bureau
- District 10: Gladwin County Farm Bureau
- District 11: Emmet County Farm Bureau
- District 12: Iron Range Farm Bureau
Involvement
- District 1: Berrien County Farm Bureau
- District 2: Calhoun County Farm Bureau
- District 3: Oakland County Farm Bureau
- District 4: Kent County Farm Bureau
- District 5: Shiawassee County Farm Bureau
- District 6: Lapeer County Farm Bureau
- District 7: Osceola County Farm Bureau
- District 8: Saginaw County Farm Bureau
- District 9: Mason County Farm Bureau
- District 10: Huron Shores Farm Bureau
- District 11: Cheboygan County Farm Bureau
- District 12: Iron Range Farm Bureau
One state-level winner in each category will be chosen by a panel of judges and announced at MFB’s 2022 Council of Presidents’ Conference, Feb. 2-3 in Midland.
Congratulations to all of these outstanding county Farm Bureaus for their exemplary work throughout the 2020-21 membership year!
The ideas and events submitted through the Champions of Excellence Awards process will be shared with all county Farm Bureaus so everyone can strive toward the greatness our winners have achieved.