NeFU Announces State Convention Locations For Next Two Years

Lincoln, NE. Nebraska Farmers Union (NeFU), Nebraska’s second oldest and largest general farm organization has accepted and signed convention bids for the 2025 and 2026 State Conventions.

The 2025 State Convention will return to the Divots Convention Center and Norfolk Lodge & Suites in Norfolk, Nebraska, Friday and Saturday, December 5-6. The State Convention was held at Divots in 2023 and 2019 in recent years, and at the Villa Inn in 1977.

The 2026 State Convention will return to Grand Island and the Ramada Midtown Conference Center, Wednesday and Thursday, December 9-10.  The State Convention was held at the Midtown Holiday Inn in 2017, 2015, and from 2011 to 2013. NeFU held their state conventions at one facility or another in Grand Island from 1991 thru 2010.

In order to give more NeFU members more opportunities to attend and participate in state convention, the NeFU Board has been rotating state conventions between northeast, central, and southeast Nebraska. Bids are currently being evaluated for Lincoln in 2027. 

NeFU State President John Hansen said, “These are excellent convention facilities. We continue to encourage our members to put State Convention dates on their calendars. Our state conventions not only elect our leaders, set our state policy, review the year’s financials, hear excellent state and national leaders, they are also a great place to meet family farmers and ranchers of all kinds and sizes who raise a wide range of agricultural products in a wide range of ways who share their passion for our traditional system of independently owned and operated agricultural system. It is the best system in the world.”

Nebraska Farmers Union is a general farm organization with 3,532 farm and ranch family members dedicated to protecting and enhancing the economic well-being and quality of life for family farmers and ranchers, and their rural communities.  Since 1913, Nebraska Farmers Union has helped organize over 445 cooperatives.