President Doug Mosebar
Doug Mosebar was re-elected president of the California Farm Bureau Federation in December 2007.
Mosebar, who farms in Santa Ynez, was first elected president in 2005 and has been a statewide Farm Bureau officer since 1989, when he was elected second vice president. He was elected first vice president in 1997.
In January 2008, Mosebar was elected to the American Farm Bureau Federation Board of Directors.
A former president of the Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau, Mosebar farms hay, squash, flowers and pumpkins and raises cattle. The ranch he operates is occasionally used by film crews as a setting for films and TV commercials.
He has been honored as Agricultural Person of the Year by the Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau and as Farmer of the Year by the Santa Barbara County Fair.
Mosebar was born in Yakima, Wash. He attended College of the Sequoias in Visalia and earned a degree in agricultural business management from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
He has served as a member of the California Wheat Commission and on the advisory board of the California Beet Growers Association.
In Farm Bureau, Mosebar served as a member and chairman of the CFBF hay commodity advisory committee and on the CFBF finance committee.