Associate members Farm Bureau members who are not directly involved in farming.

 These members are not eligible to be on county boards or state boards (P. Cockrell, S.

 Butler, & R. Hemphill, personal communication, July 17, 2003).

 Conclusion

 The FFBF realizes that with the changes taking place within agriculture and

 society as a whole, strong and effective leaders are needed to keep agriculture and the

 Farm Bureau organization viable in the future. Younger members of the organization

 often do not take on leadership roles or if they do, are not as effective in these roles as

 they could be (P. Cockrell, personal communication, September 10, 2002). Realizing

 this, the FFBF would like to offer a leadership-training program to its members, but must

 understand and be able to articulate expectations of its leaders. This study provided the

 necessary research for the development of such a program.

 The five objectives that guided this study are to (1) identify demographics of

 county Farm Bureau membership, (2) identify perceived leadership roles of county Farm

 Bureau leaders by the state Farm Bureau leadership, (3) measure the extent to which

 county Farm Bureau members practice the leadership expectations held by state Farm

 Bureau leaders and the level of importance they assign to those skills, (4) determine

 leadership attitude, will, and desire of active Florida Farm Bureau members, and (5)

 determine reason why local Farm Bureau members chose to participate or not participate

 in leadership roles in local county Farm Bureau boards. A background of the study, the

 significance of the study, delimitations of the study and definitions of key terms of the

study were also provided in Chapter 1.