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 leaders. This instrument was comprised of four competency sections: (1) 15 leadership,

 (2) 20 political process, (3) 15 effective boards, and (4) 16 knowledge of farm bureau.

 The mean and standard deviation was calculated for the importance and proficiency of

 each competency section.

 Objective four, determine leadership attitude, will, and desire of active Florida

 farm bureau members was accomplished by analyzing the data of each section of the

 instrument. A mean and standard deviation was found for the motivation sources

 inventory and the semantic differential. A reliability analysis was conducted on the

 Likert-scale about serving on county boards.

 Multiple regression was used to accomplish objective five, explain why local farm

 bureau members chose to participate or not participate in leadership roles in local county

 farm bureau boards. For this analysis, the dependent variable is participation on a county

 board, and the independent variables are: the four motivation factors from the motivation

 sources inventory, the three factors on volunteering from the semantic differential,

 attitude about serving on a county board, and the demographic variables found at the end

 of the survey instrument.

 Findings

 A summary of the findings of this study are presented in relation to the objectives

of the study.

Objective One

 The first objective of this study sought to identify the demographics of county

Farm Bureau membership. Of the 129 board members who responded to this survey,