Four state Farm Bureau presidents were elected to the Farm Bureau Federation Board at the 92nd Annual Meeting.
Black Hurt of Missouri, Pat Langenfelder of Maryland, Randy Knight of Mississippi and Paul Wenger of California were all chosen to join the board. Hurst represents the Midwest, Langenfelder represents the north, Knight represents the south and Wenger represents the west.
The other fourteen Farm Bureau presidents were re-elected into their regional director positions.
Farm Press reports that this includes:
Midwest region — Craig Lang, Iowa, Keith Olsen, Nebraska, Don Villwock, Indiana, and Wayne Wood, Michigan.
Northeast region — Dean Norton, New York, and Carl Shaffer, Pennsylvania.
Southern region — Ronnie Anderson, Louisiana, Kenneth Dierschke, Texas, Zippy Duval, Georgia, Mike Spradling, Oklahoma, Lacy Upchurch, Tennessee, and Larry Wooten, North Carolina.
Western region — Perry Livingston, Wyoming, and Michael White, New Mexico.
Terry Gilbert from Kentucky and Sherry Saylor or Arizona were re-elected as chair and vice-chair of the Women’s Leadership Committee. Ben LaCross of Michigan was also elected the new chairman of the Younger Farmers & Ranchers Committee.
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