County President, Kevin Underwood, called the meeting to order and asked all to stand for the Pledge To The American Flag and The Lord’s Prayer.

            There being no additions to the agenda, Kevin asked for corrections or additions to the January minutes. Sue Leamon made a motion to approve the minutes, Sherry Underwood and Kenneth Miller seconded her motion and it passed. After a little discussion on the check register Lloyd Leamon moved it be approved, Jason Buck seconded and that motion passed.

INSURANCE – Gary Brownlee, manager, reported on the meeting held on February 13^th on the Farm Program and Crop Insurance. Tippecanoe County had 46 attend in the morning and White County had 27 at the afternoon meeting

WOMEN – Mary Anne Workman informed us the Women Leader, Kathy Bennett and husband, Rick, have moved back to the Kokomo area so Kathy will no longer be Woman Leader.

YOUNG FARMERS – Since Craig Spray will be Young Farmer chair Josh Cox will no longer be on the board. The group still have their basketball meetings and are planning a trip to Wisconsin the first week-end in March.

COMMONDITY – Lloyd and Jason reported on the grain markets and Ag Days in April. There will be another Marketing Meeting on March 17^th at 7:30 p.m.

STATE LEGISLATIVE – Larry Underwood reported on the many things going on at the Statehouse. The Letter Writing Campaign was put on hold until legislators are working on Property Tax Legislation and then it has hoped all voting members will write.

            The Animal Rights Group are planning on targeting Ohio and Indiana as they did in California with Proposition # 2.

MEMBERSHIP – Mary Anne reported membership is down and it is hoped we can get 10 new members in ten days. Write a new membership and receive a Farm Bureau shirt. She suggested we invite a neighbor or friend to the Annual Meeting.

PUBLIC RELATIONS – Roger Verhey is planning a committee meeting on March 9^th, at 6:30 p.m., at the Pizza King across the street from the Farm Bureau office.

ANNUAL MEETING – Jason Buck reported the nominating committee have been working and have a slate of officers ready.

            Kevin asked for names to be presented at the Annual Meeting as delegates for the Delegate Session, in August, and at the State Convention. Those nominated were; Kevin Underwood, Craig Fuller, David Korty, Mary Anne Workman, Larry Underwood, Lloyd Leamon, Jason Buck, Roger Verhey, Craig Spray. The four receiving the most votes will be the Delegates and the next four will be the Alternates. 
      Roger passed out the Resolutions the committee received from members.  After discussion it was agreed to move some from Local to State Resolutions and eliminate others.  These resolutions will be presented at the Annual Meeting and voted on by voting members. 
       Table set-up will be at 1 p.m. on March 2nd, with Kenneth, Lloyd, Roger, and Kevin serving on that committee.  Sue Leamon agreed to get door prizes.
       Kevin is to get a plaque and gift certificate for retiring Skip Davis, Farm Radio.

NATIONAL CONVENTION - A question was recently asked about eligibility for a board member to receive budgeted money to attend the National Convention.  At the November 26, 2007 board meeting a motion was made and passed that, "Each board member must attend at least 75% to 80% of the board meetings to be entitled to a set amount toward expenses to the National Convention."  It was agreed that this and many other "little things," many of us have known for some time, need to be made known to more recent board members, maybe by way of a booklet or even just a sheet of paper.

DISTRICT REPORT - Janice Deno said there is to be a District 3 Women's Meeting on March 30th.  A question was asked about term limits for District Directors and State Officers.  The new ruling is the District Director may now serve four 3-year terms, it had been three 3-year terms and State Officers now have a term limit of five 3-year terms and in the past there was no limit.

The next board meeting will be March 23rd.  The meeting adjourned at 9 p.m. and refreshments were served.