Owners of Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperative and global agribusiness, elected five board members to three-year terms during the cooperative’s 2024 annual meeting held Dec. 5-6 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Trent Sherven was elected to the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ Board of Directors to represent owners in Region 3 (North Dakota). Sherven raises barley, canola, durum, soybeans, spring and winter wheat and sunflowers with his family near Ryder, North Dakota.
Chris Edgington was also elected to the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ Board of Directors to represent Region 7 (Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee). Edgington raises corn, soybeans and cattle with his family near St. Ansgar, Iowa.
David Johnsrud (Region 1) and Steve Fritel (Region 3) retired from the Board at the conclusion of the annual meeting. Amendments to the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ Bylaws approved by members in December 2023 added a director seat to Region 7 (filled by Edgington) and removed a seat from Region 1.
In addition to the new members joining the board, the following were reelected to the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ Board of Directors:
- David Kayser, who raises corn, soybeans, hay and cattle with his family near Alexandria, South Dakota, and represents Region 4 (South Dakota)
- Russ Kehl, who raises potatoes and dry edible beans with his family near Quincy, Washington, and represents Region 6 (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Alaska)
- David Beckman, who raises corn, soybeans and hogs with his family near Elgin, Nebraska, and represents Region 8 (Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas)
The following Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ Board members were elected to one-year officer terms:
- Dan Schurr, LeClaire, Iowa, reelected chair
- C.J. Blew, Castleton, Kansas, reelected first vice chair
- Scott Cordes, Wanamingo, Minnesota, reelected second vice chair
- Russell Kehl, Quincy, Washington, reelected secretary-treasurer
- Al Holm, Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, reelected assistant secretary-treasurer
