Wright elected R.I. Farm Bureau president

WEST WARWICK – The Rhode Island Farm Bureau has named a new president for the first time in 40 years, Henry Wright, of West Greenwich.

Wright was unanimously elected Nov. 20 at the bureau’s annual meeting.
He replaces Bill Stamp Jr., Farm Bureau president since 1974. Stamp was the longest serving president of a state farm bureau in the country.

Wright farms 330 acres in Kent and Washington counties, raising corn, hay and beef cattle. He also sells seeds for several seed companies including T.A. Seeds, and does custom farming specializing in no till seeding for corn and forage crops.

Wright has been a member of the Farm Bureau Board of Directors for 24 years and a member of the Farm Bureau for 44 years.

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Wayne Salisbury of Scituate was elected vice president, replacing Tyler Young, who has been vice president for 20 years, the longest serving vice president in the United States.
Salisbury owns a farm in Johnston, specializing in pick-your-own strawberries. He also raises raspberries and vegetables.
Salisbury Farm was the first farm in New England to have a corn maze. The farm, established in the 1800s, offers free hay rides on fall weekends. Salisbury has been secretary of Farm Bureau for two years and a member of the board for 10 years. He joined the Bureau in 1989.

Five farmers were elected to the Farm Bureau Board of Directors: Vinny Confreda (Cranston), Richard Schartner (Exeter) and Peter Gavitt (Slocum in North Kingstown) were re-elected and Kevin Breene (West Greenwich) and Joe Polseno (Cranston) were elected.

The Rhode Island Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, voluntary organization of farm and ranch families.

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