McCall Reelected GFB President and Rural Broadband Improving
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.**Georgia Farm Bureau voting delegates elected the organization’s 2025 board of directors during the 87th Annual GFB Convention on Jekyll Island.
GFB voting delegates reelected President Tom McCall for a third, two-year term.
McCall and his family grow a variety of grain crops, sweet corn, hay and straw along with beef cattle, hogs and sheep on their farm in Elbert County.
McCall has been a Farm Bureau member since 1978.
**The NCTA, or Rural Broadband Association, released its “2024 Broadband-Internet Availability Survey Report,” capping off a year in which NCTA members made remarkable strides in delivering robust and reliable high-speed connectivity in the most rural parts of the country.
Despite operating in rural areas, approximately 89% of respondents’, on-average, can receive downstream speeds greater than or equal to 100 Mbps, up from 84% in 2023.
Upload speeds continue to increase as well.
**Friedrich (FREED-rick) Merz, a German conservative, is considered the frontrunner to become the country’s next chancellor.
He wants the European Union to make another attempt at a free trade deal once Donald Trump is back in the Oval Office, saying we need a positive agenda that would benefit both American and European consumers.
Merz says a joint free trade initiative could also halt the dangerous spiral of tariffs.