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Names in the News - Sept. 9, 2009

Farm Credit to elect four
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Eight farmers have been nominated to fill four board of director positions at Farm Credit Services of Mid-America (FCS). The cooperative’s 58,000 voting stockholders will be casting their ballots over the next several weeks.

The board is comprised of 16 elected directors, four from each state the association serves. Two independent directors also serve on the board. Board terms are generally four years.

On the same ballot, voting stockholders will elect members to the 2010 FCS Nominating Committee. This committee is comprised of 20 members – five from each state. Representatives will meet next June to select candidates for the 2010 elected positions.
The eight board candidates (two from each state) are listed below. More information about them can be found at www.e-farmcredit.com

Indiana: John Powell of Warsaw owns 81 acres and leases an additional 1,747 acres where he and his family produce corn, soybeans, wheat and seed corn. Additionally, the family grows out 200,000 ducks. He is a 50 percent owner of B-N-L Ducks, LLC. Matt Walther of Centerville farms 2,011 acres of row crops and has a 50 head herd of commercial beef cattle. He is co-owner of Matt Walther Farms, LLC.

Kentucky: David Bates of Shepherdsville farms 358 acres where he operates a 100-cow dairy, raising replacement heifers, corn, alfalfa, wheat and barley. Rodney Dick of Nancy owns 72 acres and leases an additional 84 acres where he raises feeder cattle and has a 35-head brood cow operation.

Ohio: Rusty Goebel of Stryker is a full-time farmer who operates a 1,621-acre corn, soybean, wheat, beef cattle and hog operation. George Stebbins of Englewood farms 1,590 acres with his brother where they raise corn, soybeans and wheat, as well as buy 3,200 weaned pigs and finish them out. He is general manager of Stebbins Farm, LTD and WGTS Farms, LTD.

Tennessee: Dan Ashby of Maryville owns 121 acres dedicated to beef, hay, fruit and timber. He is president of Rocky Top Farm. Daryl Rowe of Limestone owns 18 acres where he raises Holstein heifers, steers and alfalfa hay. Additionally, he has a tractor restoration business.

Farmers pick 2 for ISA board

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Two farmers from northeastern Indiana recently were elected as first-time farmer-leaders on the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) board of directors.

Tom Griffiths of Kendallville and Don Wyss of Ossian will join the board in January 2010 as representatives from District 2, which includes Adams, Allen, Blackford, Dekalb, Delaware, Grant, Henry, Huntington, Jay, LaGrange, Madison, Noble, Randolph, Steuben, Wayne, Wells and Whitley counties.

Indiana is divided into four districts; however, the only contested race in this year’s election was in District 2. While the other districts did not have contested races, each did have two candidates serving on the ISA board who will be reinstated for another three-year term beginning in January.

Those directors are Lynn Teel of Chalmers and Mike Beard of Frankfort in District 1; Brad Burbrink of Terre Haute and Alan Kemper of Lafayette in District 3; and Trevor Glick of Columbus and Terry Vissing of Marysville in District 4.

Iowa Soy gets 1 new director
URBANDALE, Iowa — The Iowa Soybean Assoc. (ISA) announces its new district directors, elected by soybean growers of Iowa.
The newest district director is Jan Christensen of Shenandoah, representing District 7. He is replacing John Schlorholtz of Percival, who did not seek reelection.

Others reelected to three-year terms include Brian Kemp of Sibley, representing District 1; Dean Coleman of Humboldt, District 2; Cindi Grover of Elma, District 3; John Heisdorffer of Keota, District 9; and Ron Heck of Perry, at-large.

Other district directors include Curt Sindergard of Rolfe, District 1; Wayne Fredericks of Osage, District 2; Bob Cole of Fayette, District 3; Sheila Hebenstreit of Jefferson and Delbert Christensen of Audubon, District 4; Randy VanKooten of Lynnville and AJ Blair of Dayton, District 5; Ed Ulch of Solon, District 6; Ray Gaesser of Corning, District 7; Cliff Mulder of Pella, District 8; Mark Jackson of Rose Hill, District 9; Jim Andrew of Jefferson, Roy Arends of Alexander and Tom Oswald of Cleghorn, at-large.

Farm Foundation picks KSU prof
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Barry Flinchbaugh, professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, has been elected chair of the board of trustees of Farm Foundation. He succeeds Richard Hahn, retired president of Farmers National Co.

Greg Heying, senior vice president of distribution for SUPERVALU, was named vice chair. The election took place at the board’s annual meeting in June. Flinchbaugh and Heying also serve as chair and vice chair, respectively, of Farm Foundation NFP, the not-for-profit corporation responsible for Farm Foundation’s day-to-day activities.
Flinchbaugh has taught at KSU since 1971, focusing on national agricultural and economic policy. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. at Purdue University. He also chaired the Commission on 21st Century Production Agriculture authorized in the 1996 farm bill and serves on the board of the Kansas City Board of Trade and KARL, Inc.

9/9/2009