Special to the WJH MACON — Pierce County’s Daniel Johnson has been re-elected to represent the 53-county region as Georgia Farm Bureau South Georgia vice president.
Johnson will be serving his fourth three-year term after voting December 9, 2025 during the 2026 Board of Directors 88th annual GFB Convention held on Jekyll Island.
Johnson, who grows tobacco, corn, cotton and peanuts, previously represented the organization’s 10th District on the GFB Board of Directors from 2006-2016. He is vice president of Pierce County Farm Bureau and previously served as PCFB president for 25 years.
The 53-county region runs from Alabama to the Georgia coast in the southern third of the state.
All GFB voting delegates designated Johnson to serve as GFB 1st vice president from among the organization’s three regional vice presidents, a position he has held since 2021. The GFB first vice president would step in to lead the organization should the president be unable to serve.
Johnson chairs the Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission for Tobacco.
GFB president Tom Mc-Call begins the second year of his third, two-year term. He was first elected in 2020. McCall and his family grow a variety of grain crops, sweet corn, hay and straw along with beef cattle, hogs and sheep on their Elbert County farm.
McCall has been a Farm Bureau member since 1978. His first leadership role with Farm Bureau was serving as chairman of the Elbert County Farm Bureau (ECFB) Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Committee.
He represented GFB’s 2nd District on the GFB YF&R Committee in 198182 and chaired the state committee in 1982. Mc-Call represented GFB’s 2nd District on the GFB Board of Directors from 1984-1996. He also served as ECFB president for several years.
McCall served in the Georgia House of Representatives for 26 years from January 9, 1995, when he was sworn into office, until he retired from the legislature at the end of his 2020 term.
As a state representative, McCall represented Georgia’s House District 33, which at the time included Elbert and Lincoln counties and portions of Madison, Wilkes and Columbia counties. McCall chaired the Georgia House Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee from January 2005-2020.
He currently serves on the UGA Research Foundation Board of Directors.
Ralph Caldwell of Heard County begins the second year of his second, three-year term as GFB Middle Georgia vice president, which members in the organization’s Middle Georgia Region first elected him to in 2021 and re-elected him in 2024.
The GFB Middle Georgia Region includes 56 county Farm Bureaus in the middle third of Georgia stretching from the Alabama line to the South Carolina line.
Bernard Sims of Catoosa County begins the third year of his sixth, three-year term as the GFB North Georgia vice president. Sims was first elected to the position in 2008.
