Nat DiBuduo, AFM of Fresno has been elected as the California Chapter's First Year Board Member for 2008-2009. The new board was installed at the chapter's recent Fall Conference in Shell Beach. Officers for 2008-2009 include: Michael Ming, ARA - President; Ralph Pavey, ARA, MAI - President Elect; David Gracia, ARA - First Vice President; Dorothy Bell, ARA - Second Vice President; John Maus, ARA - Second Year Board Member; Nat DiBuduo, AFM - First Year Board Member; Erik Roget, ARA - Treasurer; and David Moore, AFM - Immediate Past President.
Nat was formally introduced to the chapter on the 2008-09 Election Ballot. He is President of Allied Grape Growers, a winegrape growers association representing nearly 600 members throughout California producing over 250,000 tons annually. Prior to joining Allied (May 2000), Nat was employed at Capital Agricultural Property Services, Inc. as the executive manager (1994-2000), where he had the responsibility of managing approximately 22,000 acres of agricultural land throughout California and Arizona.
Nat is a graduate of California State University, Fresno with a BS degree in Plant Science/Viticulture and a minor study in Business Administration. He is a graduate of the California Agricultural Leadership Program, holds a pest control advisor’s license, a qualified applicator’s license, a salesman’s license from the Department of Real Estate and is an Accredited Farm Manager with ASFMRA.
Nat holds memberships, has chaired, and/or served on many agricultural and community boards and committees including: The Big Fresno Fair, Fresno City Planning Commission, United Cerebral Palsy, CSUF Alumni Association, Republican Central Committee of California’s Agricultural Committee, CSUF Bulldog Foundation, California Agriculture Leadership Alumni, California Association of Winegrape Growers, Agricultural Council of California, Fresno’s & Madera’s County Farm Bureau as well as California Farm Bureau’s Grape Commodity Advisory Committee, California Grape & Tree Fruit League, Wine Institute, Pierce Disease / Glassy Wing Sharp Shooter Advisory Task Force and the CSU Fresno Viticulture & Enology Industry Advisory Board. He has received various honors and accolades and was most recently honored in the fall of 2007 by the Fresno Greater Area Chamber of commerce as Fresno County’s Co-Agriculturalist of the Year. The Fresno Fair named Nat as one of their initial inductees’ of the Big Fresno Fair’s Hall of Fame.
Born and raised in Fresno, Nat and his wife, Marilyn, have been married 36 years and have three children and one granddaughter. We welcome Nat to the California Chapter, ASFMRA Board!
