Butler County Farm Bureau President Larry Voll (center) accepts the prestigious Premier County Award from Pennsylvania Farm Bureau President Rick Ebert (right) and PFB Vice President Chris Hoffman during the county recognition dinner at PFB´s annual meeting in Hershey.

The Butler County Farm Bureau won the top award and several other awards at the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s 69th annual meeting in Hershey.

The bureau won five awards, including the 2019 Premier County Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a county farm bureau among Pennsylvania’s 54 county farm bureaus, during the annual meeting held in November. The five awards were the most won by any county bureau.

Larry Voll, Butler County Farm Bureau president, said offices and members deserve the credit for winning the awards, including the Premier County Award, which it won for the first time.

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