Jon Hegeman of Calhoun County, left, was elected first vice chairman of the Alabama Farmers Federation 2013 State Greenhouse, Nursery and Sod Committee Feb. 14 during the organization’s Commodity Organizational Conference in Montgomery. Hegeman will serve a three-year term, with a one-year term as first vice chairman. From left are Hegeman and Federation Greenhouse, Nursery and Sod Division director Mac Higginbotham.