FBI agent will speak in Fairville about agri-terrorism

An FBI agent with a background in agricultural terrorism investigations will be the guest speaker at Wayne County Farm Bureau's annual meeting Saturday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Fairville Fire Hall.

Michael Hickok, based in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Buffalo office, has worked as an FBI agent for four years and works on the joint terrorism task force. He is involved primarily in long-term investigations, border incidents and other issues that pose a terror threat to the U.S.

Hickok has a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history and is fluent in Turkish and French. According to the Buffalo Business Journal, before he became a special agent, he was a federal government employee who had traveled all over the world, but spent most of his time in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. During a second stint teaching at the Air Force War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, he decided to become an FBI agent. The Farm Bureau annual meeting will start with a social hour at 6:30 p.m. and dinner served at 7 p.m.

The cost is $6; attendees do not have to be Farm Bureau members. Guests are welcome. Farm Bureau invites membership from producers and processors of all agricultural commodities, businesses that may not be in direct agriculture production but depend on the agricultural economy, and residents of rural areas who may not be farmers but appreciate the rural lifestyle.

County Farm Bureau annual meetings are where policy issues, local, state and national, are hammered out. Farm Bureau members have the opportunity to help shape current and future Farm Bureau policy. Policies developed in county meetings go to New York Farm Bureaus annual meeting, this year in Niagara Falls in December, where policy is further discussed and voted on my members from every county. Policies adopted become part of the state Farm Bureau policy.

National issues are moved along to the American Farm Bureau Federation meeting in January. Labor issues, taxation issues, regulatory reform and environmental issues are but a few of the topics on the agenda for next weeks meeting.

For reservations, phone 315.568.2658 or respond to by e-mail at 

nymjames@fb.org

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