More About President Mayberry

As the sun set on the centennial celebration of Tennessee Farm Bureau, the leadership at the helm of the nation’s largest Farm Bureau took a transition. Voted in unanimously by the delegates of the 100th annual meeting in December 2021, Humphreys County farmer Eric Mayberry took over as the organization’s ninth president.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be the president of such a long-storied organization as the Tennessee Farm Bureau,” Mayberry says.

Mayberry is the third-generation on his family’s farm near Hurricane Mills, about 75 miles west of Nashville. He and his wife, Lynn, along with their three children, Alyssa, Ashton and Ethan, farm more than 1,000 acres of corn and soybeans as well as raise a herd of 200 beef cattle.

“I love what I do. There’s just something about nurturing animals and growing crops with the hopes of a bountiful harvest,” says Mayberry.

The family has been an integral part of the greater Farm Bureau family for quite a while. The couple first became involved through the Young Farmers and Ranchers program. Mayberry then joined the Humphreys County Farm Bureau Board of Directors in 1988, where he served as vice president and later president. He was first elected to the Tennessee Farm Bureau Board of Directors representing District II in 2005 and vice president in 2015, where he provided leadership under the direction of TFBF President Jeff Aiken for six years.

“I don’t remember what life was like before Farm Bureau, and to be honest, I don’t want to know what it would be like without it,” Mayberry says. “We’ve had a wonderful experience with the organization our entire lives, and I can see now that all we’ve done through the years was in preparation for this opportunity, I just didn’t know it at the time.”

As president, Mayberry represents and serves the more than 690,000 family members of the organization. He guides the board of directors and staff, and he will works with county, district, state and national leadership, partners in the agricultural industry, lawmakers and other decision-makers to ensure agriculture and rural Tennessee remains prosperous and successful. 

“I hope to be a better Farm Bureau every day – to serve our members and farmers better and anyone else who depends on Farm Bureau,” Mayberry says. “We need to create better ways to do that and be there for those folks, and I know we will.” 

“We take pride in being the largest Farm Bureau in the nation, but part of the challenge is continuing to grow and share the important story of agriculture with our non-farm members,” Mayberry says. “We need to be ready for whatever might come our way in the future.”