ProfilesPublished on 09/25/2006 Volunteer Rex Shenefield has been a Meigs County Farm Bureau member for 54 years and served on the county board of trustees for more than 30. He was president for 12 years and served on the government affairs, membership, and marketing committees. He also has been a delegate to the OFBF annual meeting numerous times. This year, he is county vice president. He and his wife, Catherine, have been married for 58 years and are parents of two grown children, have four granddaughters and four great-grandchildren. They belong to Salem Center Methodist Church. Rex, his son and nephew raise 750 acres of soybeans and corn, 100 acres of alfalfa and 100 acres of mixed hay. The Shenefields also have a construction business. He was a volunteer for the Salem Fire Department, president of the Wilton Civic Center, a member of the Gallipolis Shine Club and is a 50-year mason and member of all other Masonic bodies. He also is a 60-year member of Star Grange and a past member of the Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District, where he was a state director of the Soil and Water Federation for 12 years. "I’ve been on the (county) presidents’ trip every year I was president," he said. "If not for Farm Bureau, family farms would not be in agriculture," he said. He also touted Farm Bureau’s efforts to secure CAUV and Farm Bureau’s educational work to help members know about political candidates. | |