Kallie Jo Coates of Racine County was selected the winner of the 2024 Wisconsin Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Agriculturist Discussion Meet during the organization’s 105h Annual Meeting and YFA Conference on December 8.
The Discussion Meet is a panel discussion in which Farm Bureau members between the ages of 18 and 35 are judged on their ability to express their ideas and opinions and reach a solution on current issues affecting agriculture.
Coates works for Harry Hansen Meat Service and is a marketing freelancer with Briar Marketing. Her and her husband, Devin, own Coates Farm where they raise 150 laying hens in addition to corn and forage crops. She graduated from UW-Platteville with a degree in agricultural education before receiving her masters degree in agricultural communications from Texas Tech.
Coates will represent Wisconsin during the American Farm Bureau Annual Convention in January. She will receive $1,500 courtesy of GROWMARK, Inc., is eligible to participate in the 2025 YFA Washington, D.C. Fly-In and will be a guest of WFBF at the 2025 YFA Conference.
Along with awards from Farm Bureau, Rural Mutual Insurance and GROWMARK, Inc., the winner was presented with a chainsaw courtesy of Blain’s Farm and Fleet.
Other finalists included Isaac Christensen of Polk-Burnett Farm Bureau, Stephanie Hoff of Dane County and Collin Weltzien of Buffalo County.
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