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The '''Farm Bureau''' (officially the '''American Farm Bureau Federation''') is a large, powerful, mostly conservative organization of American farmers.
[[File:Farm-orgs.jpg|thumb|310px|Membership in Grange and rival farm organizations, 1875-1960. From Tontz (1964) p. 146]]
==Further reading==
* Campbell, Christiana McFadyen. ''The Farm Bureau and the New Deal: a study of making of national farm policy''(1962) 215pp
* Kile, Orville Merton. ''The Farm Bureau through three decades'' (1948) 416 pp.
* Lacey, John J. ''Farm Bureau in Illinois: history of Illinois Farm Bureau'' (1965) 464pp
* Tontz, Robert L. "Memberships of General Farmers' Organizations, United States, 1874-1960," ''Agricultural History,'' Vol. 38, No. 3 (Jul., 1964), pp. 143-156 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3740434 in JSTOR] statistical tables showing membership in the Farm Bureau and other farm organizations by date and state and region
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