Voting delegates at the Washington State Farm Bureau's 91st annual meeting unanimously re-elected Steve Appel, a wheat and barley grower from Whitman County, to lead them into 2011.

Appel has been WFB President since November 1994. A third-generation farmer, Appel is a graduate of Washington State University.

Aaron Golladay, a diversified farmer from Grant County, was elected to his first term as first vice president for legislation. Most recently Golladay served as a member of the Washington Farm Bureau state board, representing Grant County and on the WFB PAC Committee.

Delegates unanimously re-elected Mike LaPlant, a hay farmer from Grant County, to his second term as the second vice president for policy development.

More than 330 members and a total of 246 voting delegates, representing all 25 county Farm Bureaus, attended the annual meeting, held at the Convention Center in Yakima.

-- Steve Brown