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68 CHS 2014
David Johnsrud
Starbuck, Minn.; elected 2012
_Member, Government Relations and Governance committees
_Chairman, AgCountry Farm Credit Services; former director
and chairman, Minnesota Farm Credit Legislative Committee;
chairman, Minnesota Farm Credit nominating committee for
AgriBank election; director and secretary, Farmers Union Oil
and CHS Prairie Lakes; secretary and chairman, Mid-Minnesota
Association Board; member and treasurer, Minnesota Directors’
Association
_Farms in partnership with his brother and nephew
David Kayser
Alexandria, S.D.; elected 2006
_Member, Corporate Risk and CHS Foundation Finance and
Investment committees; former member, CHS Annual Meeting
Resolutions Committee
_Former director and chairman, Farmer’s Alliance, Mitchell, S.D.;
former chairman, South Dakota Association of Cooperatives
_Raises corn, soybeans and hay; operates a cow-calf and
feeder-calf business
Randy Knecht
Houghton, S.D.; elected 2001
_Member, Government Relations and Capital committees; former
assistant secretary-treasurer
_Former board member, American Coalition for Ethanol; former
board member and chairman, Full Circle Ag and Northern
Electric Cooperative
_B.S., agriculture, South Dakota State University
_Partner in family farming operation producing corn, soybeans,
alfalfa and beef cattle.
Greg Kruger
Eleva, Wis.; elected 2008
_Member, Audit, Government Relations and CHS Foundation
Finance and Investment committees
_Chairman, Countryside Cooperative, Durand, Wis., since
its creation in 1998; president, Trempealeau County Farm
Bureau; chairman, local land use planning committee
_Operates a family dairy and crop farm
Edward Malesich
Dillon, Mont.; elected 2011
_Member, Government Relations and Corporate Risk committees
_Member, Montana Stock Growers Association, Montana Grain
Growers Association and Farm Bureau; former director, Rocky
Mountain Supply, Inc., Belgrade, Mont.; former director and
chairman, Northwest Farm Credit Services, Spokane, Wash.;
former director, East Bench Irrigation District
_B.S., agricultural production, Montana State University
_President, Malesich Ranch Co., a diversified operation
managing 1,300 head of cattle; wheat, malt barley and hay
on 2,000 irrigated acres; and a custom haying business
Steve Riegel
Ford, Kan.; elected 2006
_Chairman, Government Relations Committee; member,
Governance Committee
_Advisory director, Bucklin (Kan.) National Bank; former
chairman, Pride Ag Resources, Dodge City, Kan.; former director
and ocer, Ford-Kingsdown Cooperative and Co-op Service, Inc.
_Attended Fort Hays State University, agriculture business and
animal science
_Raises irrigated corn, soybeans, alfalfa, dryland wheat and milo
CHS and Five Star Cooperative have partnered on a 22,000-
ton fertilizer hub plant at Joice, Iowa. General Manager Ron
Pumphrey says, “With CHS helping us, we gain eciencies.
As the younger generation takes over in our system,
momentum is going to come from added products and
services. I’ve never seen momentum as strong as it is now.”