Meet Your Illinois Farm Bureau Board of Directors

Meet Your
Illinois Farm Bureau
Board of Directors...
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Richard L. Guebert Jr.
President
Illinois Farm Bureau
Richard Guebert Jr., of Ellis Grove, is the 15th president of the Illinois
Farm Bureau® (IFB®) and serves as full-time executive officer. He is also
president of COUNTRY Financial, Illinois Agricultural Service Company,
and the IAA Foundation. He also serves on the coordinating committee for
GROWMARK, Inc.
Prior to his election as president, Guebert served as vice president of the
Illinois Farm Bureau from 2003-2013. As vice president, Guebert also served
as chairman of the COUNTRY/IFB Governance Committee. In 2007, he was
appointed by the IFB president to serve as chairman of a Floodplain Study
Group.
Guebert and his son, Kyle, operate a farm where they grow corn,
soybeans, and wheat.
Guebert served as director of the Lower Kaskaskia Stakeholder, Inc. from
1999 to 2004; director of the Kaskaskia Watershed Association from 2000 to
2004; director of Gateway FS from 1990 to 2008; on the board of directors for
Randolph County Farm Bureau from 1993 to 2003; vice president of Randolph
County Farm Bureau from 1994-1996; and president from 1996 to 2003.
In 2001, he served on the IFB Co-op Task Force and completed the
Agricultural Leaders of Tomorrow leadership training. Guebert was named a
Master Farmer in 2006 by Prairie Farmer magazine.
In March 2007, he accompanied Jack Lavin, director, Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the state of Illinois, and other
delegates on a trade mission to India to open a trade office in New Delhi.
In June 2007, he traveled to Poland with then Lt. Governor Pat Quinn on a
four-city cultural exchange and trade mission that developed and enhanced the
relationship between Illinois and Poland. In March 2009, Guebert was part of
the farm/business delegation to Cuba under the direction of Jack Block, former
Secretary of Agriculture. Governor Quinn appointed Guebert to the Taxpayer
Action Board in April 2009 and in 2012 was appointed to the Governor’s
Export Advisory Council. In 2011, Guebert participated in a trade mission to
China with Governor Quinn and several business leaders from across the state.
Guebert has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture education, with a minor
in animal science from Southern Illinois University. Guebert and his wife,
Nancy, reside in Ellis Grove. They are members of St. John’s Lutheran
Church in Chester where Rich has served in many capacities. Rich and Nancy
have one granddaughter, Emma, daughter of Kyle and his wife Michelle.
David C. Erickson
Vice President
Illinois Farm Bureau
David C. Erickson of Altona was elected in December 2013 as
vice president of the Illinois Farm Bureau. Prior to that, he served
as president of the Knox County Farm Bureau from 2011-2012.
In his capacity as vice president of the Illinois Farm Bureau,
Erickson is also vice president of COUNTRY Financial, Illinois
Agricultural Service Company, and the IAA Foundation. He
serves as Chairman of the IFB Resolutions Committee and serves
on the Coordinating Committee of GROWMARK, Inc. He also
serves on the Country/IAA Governance Committee.
Erickson and his wife, Nancy, operate a farm where they
grow corn and soybeans using no-till practices and site-specific
technology. They have one son, Adam.
Erickson has served as Illinois FFA Secretary-Treasurer,
president of the Illinois Soybean Association, president and
chairman of the board of the American Soybean Association, and
chairman of the Illinois Foundation FFA. He earned the American
FFA Degree and received the state 4-H Alumni Recognition
Award from Illinois 4-H in 2005.
He is a past director of the Oneida Telephone and Cablevision
Companies, the Knox County Zoning Board of Appeals and past
Chairman of the Galesburg Cottage Hospital Board of Trustees.
He also served on the board of directors for Midwest Bank of
Western Illinois, Unit #10 Extension Council, and currently
serves on the Knox County Board. He is an active member of the
Immanuel Lutheran Church of Altona.
Erickson has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture education from
Western Illinois University. He was named a Master Farmer in
2003 by Prairie Farmer magazine and provides advice as a Profit
Planner Panelist for Prairie Farmer magazine.
Bob Gehrke
District 1
Bob Gehrke of Elgin in Kane County was elected to the state
board of directors in 2011 to represent District 1, which includes
DeKalb, Lake, Kane, and McHenry counties. He serves on
the National Affairs & Marketing Committee, the Agricultural
Leaders of Tomorrow (ALOT) Committee and on the Gardner
Chair Policy Advisory Committee. Gehrke also serves as the
interlocking member on the board of the Illinois Specialty
Growers Association.
Gehrke operates farms in Kane and Stephenson counties
raising corn, soybeans, wheat and hay.
He graduated from Central High School in Burlington in 1976.
Gehrke served on the Kane County Farm Bureau Board from
1994 to 2012. He served as president from 2004 to 2010. He also
served as secretary/treasurer from 1997-2004. He was a member
of the 2009 Market Study Tour to China.
He has served as Conserve FS Director since 2002. Gehrke is
a member of the Kane County Corn Growers Association and is
an associate member of the Illinois Wheat Association.
Gehrke and his wife, Beth, have two children, Wayne and
Carolyn, who also are involved in the family farm. They are
members of the St. John Lutheran Church in Sycamore. Gehrke
serves as Chairman of Stewardship and is the Financial Secretary
of the church.
Chuck Cawley
District 2
Chuck Cawley of Rochelle in Ogle County was elected
to the state board of directors in 2004 to represent District 2,
which includes Boone, Carroll, JoDaviess, Ogle, Stephenson,
and Winnebago counties. He serves on the Finance Committee,
the Budget Committee, the IAA Grant Committee, the Gardner
Chair Policy Advisory Committee and on the COUNTRY Trust
Bank Board. He also serves as chairman of the IAA Governance
Committee and on the COUNTRY Governance Committee.
Cawley is the interlocking member for the Illinois Council on
Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR).
Cawley operates a farm in Ogle County raising corn and
soybeans.
Cawley served as president of the Ogle County Farm Bureau
from 2001 to 2004. He is a 1996 Agricultural Leaders of
Tomorrow (ALOT) graduate and has served on numerous GRITs
teams. He participated in the IFB Japanese Market Study Tour
in 2004, and is a graduate of the Illinois Agriculture Leadership
Program.
Cawley is a commissioner on the Kyte River Drainage
District. He is chairman of the Rochelle Lincoln Highway
Heritage Festival Parade.
Cawley graduated from the University of Illinois in 1981 and
earned a master’s degree in agronomy from the U of I in 1993.
Cawley and his wife, Patricia, have three children, Danielle
(Patrick) Waldrop, Cara, and Ryan. They attend Calvary
Evangelical Lutheran Church and St. Patrick Catholic Church.
Wayne Anderson
District 3
Wayne Anderson of Geneseo in Henry County was elected
to the state board of directors in 2005 to represent District
3, which includes Henry, Mercer, Rock Island, Stark, and
Whiteside counties. He serves on the Finance Committee,
the Budget Committee and the Rural Illinois Medical Student
Assistance Program (RIMSAP) Committee. He also serves as the
interlocking member on the board of the Illinois Corn Growers
Association and on the COUNTRY Trust Bank Board.
Anderson operates a farm that grows corn and soybeans.
Anderson served as a director on the Henry County Farm
Bureau Board from 1985-1989, as chairman of the marketing
committee in 1989, legislative chairman from 1990-1993,
membership chairman in 1994, and was president of Henry
County Farm Bureau from 1995-2002. He also served as a
director on the Farm Mutual Electric Board in Henry County from
1987-1998 and was vice president from 1993-1998.
He is a past member of the Henry County Pork Producers
Association and is a past member of Illinois Pork Producer’s
Association and the Henry County Livestock Feeders Association.
He is a member of the Illinois Corn Growers Association and
Illinois Soybean Association.
Anderson received a bachelor’s degree in ag mechanization
from Western Illinois University in 1977.
Anderson and his wife, Shelley, have three sons and are
members of the Geneseo Evangelical Free Church.
Brad Temple
District 4
Brad Temple of Serena in LaSalle County was elected to
the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in 2010 to represent
District 4, which includes Bureau, LaSalle and Lee counties.
He serves on the National Affairs & Marketing Committee, the
ACTIVATOR Executive Committee, the Audit Committee, the
IAA Foundation Board of Trustees and the COUNTRY Trust
Bank Board. He also serves on the Rural Illinois Medical
Student Assistance Program (RIMSAP) Committee, on Farming
Production and Marketing (FPM) SWAT and on the Illinois
Veterinary Education and Training (IVET) Committee.
Temple owns and operates Temple Farms, a grain and
livestock operation.
Temple was a past LaSalle County Farm Bureau president.
He is a member of the Illinois Corn Growers and Soybean
Associations and is a member of the Montadale Sheep Breeders
Association. He participated in two Farm Bureau market study
tours; China in 2001 and Europe in 2013. Temple previously
served on the Livestock and Dairy GRITs.
He received his associate’s degree in agriculture production
and management from Joliet Jr. College. He is a 1996
Agricultural Leaders of Tomorrow (ALOT) graduate, was the
State Young Farmer Discussion Meet Winner in 1996, and won
the DuPont Young Leader Award in 1996.
Temple and his wife, Kara, have two children. They are
members of Serena United Methodist Church.
Scott Halpin
District 5
Scott Halpin of Gardner in Grundy County was elected to
the state board of directors of the Illinois Farm Bureau in 2005
to represent District 5, which includes Cook, DuPage, Grundy,
Kendall, and Will counties. He is the chairman of the Member
Services & Public Relations Committee and serves on the
Budget Committee, the IAA Grant Committee and the IAA and
COUNTRY Governance Committees. He also serves on the
COUNTRY Trust Bank Board and is the interlocking member
on the board of the Illinois Milk Producers Association. In 2011,
Halpin was appointed to the Governor’s Local Food and Farms
Job Council.
Halpin raises corn, soybeans, and alfalfa on a fourth generation
farm with his father, and brother. They operate a Holstein dairy
and embryo transplant business and custom silage bagging. They
also have a beef cow and calf herd.
He served on the Young Leaders Committee from 2001-2005
and served as chairman from 2003-2005. He also is Grundy
County’s Ag in the Classroom host for dairy lessons and farm
tours.
Halpin served on Grundy County’s Soil and Water
Conservation Board from 1999-2003, and was chairman from
2001-2003 and vice chairman from 2003-2005. He is also a
member of the Heart of Illinois Holstein Club and past board
member of the Illinois Holstein Association. He is a member
of the Illinois Beef Association and the Illinois Corn Growers
Association.
Halpin, and his wife, Sarah, have three children, Ty, Grace, and
Cale. Sarah is a 4-H leader and Scott is a little league coach.
Randy Poskin
District 6
Randy Poskin of Ashkum in Iroquois County was elected to
the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in December 2010
to represent District 6, which includes Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee
and Livingston counties. He serves on the National Affairs &
Marketing Committee.
Poskin operates a grain farm.
Poskin served as president of the Ford-Iroquois County
Farm Bureaus from 2001-2010. He also served as resolutions
subcommittee chairman in 2002 and 2010 and as vice chairman in
2007. He served on the TriCentral Co-op board of directors and
on the Danforth-Ashkum #2 drainage district.
He received an associate degree from Kankakee Community
College and his bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the
University of Illinois in 1977.
Poskin, and his wife, Mona, have two children. They are
members of the Assumption BVM Catholic Church.
David Meiss
District 7
David Meiss of Gridley in McLean County was elected to
the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in 2009 to represent
District 7, which includes Marshall, McLean, Putnam, Tazewell,
and Woodford counties. Meiss serves on the Illinois Government
Committee, the COUNTRY Trust Bank Board and is the
Chairman of the IAA and COUNTRY Audit Committees. He also
is the interlocking member on the U.S. Meat Export Federation
and serves as the board’s liaison to the Illinois Pork Producers
Association.
Meiss produces corn, soybeans, wheat and specialty crops on
his farm in Gridley. He was a pork producer for 30 years.
He served as vice president of the McLean County Farm
Bureau Board from 2007 to 2010. He also served on the McLean
County Governmental Affairs Committee for 12 years and as the
chairman from 2007 to 2010.
Meiss graduated from Gridley High School in 1978. He
served on the Gridley School Board for seven years and has been
a Gridley Township Trustee for 13 years. He currently serves on
his church’s advisory council.
He is a member of the Illinois Soybean Association,
Illinois Corn Growers Association, and Illinois Pork Producers
Association.
Meiss and his wife, Debbie, have three children, Derek
(Sarah), Jordan, and Chloe, and three grandchildren. They are
members of the Apostolic Christian Church.
David Serven
District 8
David Serven of St. Augustine in Knox County was elected to
the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in 2010 to represent
District 8, which includes Fulton, Henderson, Knox, Peoria and
Warren counties. Serven serves on the Illinois Government
Committee, the ACTIVATOR Executive Committee, and on the
IAA Foundation Board of Trustees. He also serves on the Illinois
Veterinary Education and Training (IVET) Committee and on the
COUNTRY Trust Bank Board.
Serven operates a diversified grain and livestock operation,
producing corn and soybeans and custom feeding dairy heifers.
Serven served on the Knox County Farm Bureau Board from
1996-2006 and was vice president in 2000 and president from
2001-2006. He participated in a Farm Bureau market study tour
of China in 2001 and of Cuba in 2012.
He has represented District 5 on the Knox County Board.
Serven is a past director for Tompkin State Bank in Avon and for
Riverland FS.
Currently, he is vice president of the newly consolidated
Abingdon-Avon school district #276. Serven is a member of both
the Illinois Corn Growers and Soybean Associations.
Serven received his bachelor’s degree in agriculture
production at Illinois State University. He is a graduate of
Agricultural Leaders of Tomorrow (ALOT) and of the Illinois
Ag Leadership Program. He also was the state Young Leader
Achievement award winner in 2002 and received the American
Farmer Degree from FFA.
Serven and his wife, Barb, have two sons and a daughter. His
family are members of the St. Augustine Catholic Church.
Gary Speckhart
District 9
Gary Speckhart of Quincy in Adams County was elected to
the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in 2013 to represent
District 9, which includes Adams, Brown, Hancock, McDonough,
Pike, and Schuyler counties. Speckhart serves on the Member
Services & Public Relations Committee.
Speckhart and his wife, Rita, raise corn, soybeans and grapes
on their farm.
He served as president of the Adams County Farm Bureau
from 1999-2001 and vice president from 1994-1998. He currently
serves as a Prairieland FS director.
Speckhart received a bachelor’s degree in ag business from
Western Illinois University. He served 12 years as a trustee of
John Wood Community College and two terms as treasurer of the
Illinois Community College Trustees Association.
Speckhart and his wife have four children, Aaron, Somer,
Rhiannon and Alese. They attend Bluff Hall Church in Payson.
Dale Hadden
District 10
Dale Hadden of Jacksonville in Morgan County was elected
to the board of directors in 2006 to represent District 10, which
includes Cass, Logan, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, and
Scott counties. He is the chairman of the Illinois Government
Committee, the chairman of ACTIVATOR Executive Committee
and serves on the Budget Committee and on the COUNTRY
Trust Bank Board. He is the interlocking member for the U.S.
Grains Council, the Illinois Grain Insurance Corporation, and the
Nutrient Research Education Council.
Hadden, along with his parents and brother, runs a cash grain
operation growing corn, soybeans, wheat and alfalfa, and is a beef
producer. He also is a Pioneer Hi-Bred seed dealer and sells Palco
and Apache cattle equipment.
Hadden served on the Cass-Morgan Farm Bureau Board
from 1995 to 2006 and as president from 2002 to 2006. He is
a member of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, the Illinois
Soybean Association, the Illinois Wheat Association, and the
Illinois Beef Association.
Hadden is a member of the College of Agricultural, Consumer
and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Advisory Committee for
the University of Illinois. He is president of the Jacksonville
area baseball league and he coaches baseball, softball and youth
football.
Hadden has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture marketing and
farm management from the University of Illinois and is a 1994 Ag
Leadership Foundation graduate.
Hadden and his wife, Amy, have two children, Blake
and Paige. They are members of Salem Lutheran Church in
Jacksonville.
Dennis Hughes
District 11
Dennis Hughes of Decatur in Macon County was elected to
the state board of directors in 2013 to represent District 11, which
includes Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, and Shelby
counties. He serves on the Member Services & Public Relations
Committee.
After 33 years managing his corn and soybean farm, Hughes
retired in 2007. He is currently an employee of B & B Farms, a
corn-soybean farm near Decatur.
Hughes served as president of the Macon County Farm
Bureau from 1988-1994 and served more than 20 years as
an ACTIVATOR trustee for Congressional Districts 13 and
18. Hughes was past chairman of the Association of Illinois
Agriculture Associations (The Partnership). He is a current
member of the Macon County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
and is a member of the Macon County Zoning Board of Appeals.
Hughes received a bachelor’s degree in ag business from
Illinois State University in 1988 and a minor in economics. He is
a Agricultural Leaders of Tomorrow (ALOT) graduate.
He and his wife, Betty, have three sons, Christopher, Eric and
Jonathan. Hughes is serving as pastor of the Illini Congregational
United Church of Christ in Warrensburg.
Chris Hausman
District 12
Chris Hausman of Pesotum in Champaign County was elected
to the state board of directors in 2006 to represent District 12, which
includes Champaign, Douglas, Edgar and Vermilion counties. He
is chairman of the National Affairs and Marketing Committee,
and serves on the Audit Committee, the Budget Committee and on
the Gardner Chair Policy Advisory Committee. He also serves on
the COUNTRY Trust Bank Board and the IAA and COUNTRY
Governance Committees, and is the interlocking member on the
Council for Best Management Practices.
Hausman, and his wife, Evonne, operate a grain farm, producing
corn and soybeans.
Hausman served on the Champaign County Farm Bureau Board
from 1994 to 2000 and was president from 2003-2006. He served
as a state director for the Illinois Farm Bureau Farm Management
Association and was a member on the Technology Issues Advisory
Group. He also served on the American Farm Bureau Federation
Feedgrains Advisory Committee and numerous GRITs teams. He was
a member of the IFB Market Study Tour to New Zealand in 2006.
He serves on the Operating Board of Illini FS; as commissioner
for the Pesotum Consolidated Drainage District; an Advisory Board
member on the Illinois Association of Drainage Districts; as trustee
for the Pesotum Fire Protection District and St. Joseph’s Cemetery in
Pesotum; and is the former Pesotum Township Supervisor. Hausman
is a member of the Illinois Soybean Association and the Illinois
Corn Growers Association. He serves on the University of Illinois
Research and Farm.doc Website Advisory Committees within the
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
(ACES).
Hausman received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture education
from the University of Illinois and is a 2005 Agricultural Leaders of
Tomorrow (ALOT) graduate.
Hausman and his wife have three sons, Matthew, Timothy
(Jennifer), and Nicholas. He is a member of St. Mary’s Catholic
Church in Pesotum.
Dennis Green
District 13
Dennis Green of Lawrenceville in Lawrence County was
elected to the state board of directors in 2011 to represent District
13, which includes Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper,
Lawrence, and Richland counties. He serves on the Illinois
Government Committee and on the ACTIVATOR Executive
Committee. He also serves on the Audit Committee and on the
IAA Foundation Board of Trustees.
Green operates a grain farm, producing corn and soybeans.
He served on the Lawrence County Farm Bureau Board from
1976 to 1992 and from 2002 to the present. He served as president
from 1981 to 1988 and from 2009 to 2011. Green is a member
of the Illinois Soybean Association and the Illinois Corn Growers
Association.
Green served on the Lawrence County Unit 20 School Board
from 1989 to 2007 and was president for 10 years.
Green received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture economics
from the University of Illinois in 1974.
Green and his wife, Debbie, have three grown children,
Jonathan, Sara and Jason, and six grandchildren. They are
members of Pleasant Ridge Christian Church.
Steve Hosselton
District 14
Steve Hosselton of Louisville in Clay County was elected to
the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in 2008 to represent
District 14, which includes Clay, Effingham, Fayette, Marion,
and Montgomery counties. Hosselton serves on the Illinois
Government Committee, the IAA Grant Committee and the
ACTIVATOR Executive Committee. He also serves on the IAA
and COUNTRY Governance Committees, the COUNTRY Trust
Bank Board, and is the interlocking member for the Illinois Wheat
Association and represents IFB on the Illinois Coal Association
Board. In 2011, he was appointed to the Governor’s Rural Affairs
Council.
Hosselton operates a cash grain farm raising corn and
soybeans.
He graduated from North Clay High School and attended
Millikin University. He is a 1990 Agricultural Leaders of
Tomorrow (ALOT) graduate.
Hosselton has served on the Clay County board of directors
since 1987, was vice president from 1989-1991, president from
1991-1998 and again from 2004-2009. He served as director on
the board of the Effingham-Clay Service Co. from 1994-1997
and from 2007-2011 and served on the South Central Service Co.
from 2011 to the present. He served four times on the Resolutions
Committee, once as subcommittee chair. He also served on the
Policy 2000 Committee and on GRITS teams.
Hosselton chaired the Ad Hoc 911 Committee for Clay County
in 1992.
He and his wife, Chris, have a daughter, Kylie and a son,
Steven, and five grandchildren. They are members of the Bethel
Christian Church in Louisville.
Chad Schutz
District 15
Chad Schutz of White Hall in Greene County was elected to
the Illinois Farm Bureau Board of Directors in 2009 to represent
District 15, which includes Bond, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey,
Macoupin and Madison counties. He serves on the National
Affairs & Marketing Committee, the Illinois Veterinary Education
and Training (IVET) Committee and as a trustee and secretary on
the IAA Foundation Board of Trustees. He also serves on the IAA
and COUNTRY Governance Committees and the COUNTRY
Trust Bank Board. He is the interlocking member for the
Illinois Livestock Development Group and the Illinois Ag in the
Classroom (Program Council) and serves as the board’s liaison for
the Illinois Beef Association.
With several family members, Schutz operates Schutz Farms,
Inc., which produces corn and soybeans and finishes hogs and
cattle. Schutz manages beef operations on the farm.
Prior to being elected to the IFB Board, Schutz served as
president of Greene County Farm Bureau for four years and as
vice-president for two years. He is a 2008 Agricultural Leaders
of Tomorrow (ALOT) graduate. In 2003 and 2010, he traveled to
Washington D.C. with IFB’s Marketers to Washington.
Schutz is a member of the Illinois Beef Association,
Illinois Walking Horse Association and Illinois Corn Growers
Association.
Schutz and his wife, Stacy, have two children, Lana and
Bridget. They are members of the Christ United Methodist
Church.
Darryl Brinkmann
District 16
Darryl Brinkmann of Carlyle in Clinton County was elected
to the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in 2004 to represent
District 16, which includes Clinton, Monroe, Perry, Randolph, St.
Clair, and Washington counties. Brinkmann serves on the Finance
Committee, the Budget Committee, the IAA and COUNTRY
Governance Committees and the COUNTRY Trust Bank Board.
He is the interlocking member on Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., and
he represents IFB on the Illinois Coal Association Board and on
the IDNR Oil and Gas Advisory Board.
Brinkmann operates a farm in Clinton County raising corn,
soybeans, wheat and cattle.
Brinkmann served as president of the Clinton County Farm
Bureau from 1994 to 2001 and is a past chairman of the IFB
Young Farmer Committee. He served as president of the Illinois
Soybean Association, vice-president of the American Soybean
Association, chairman of the National Biodiesel Board and
chairman of the National Biodiesel Foundation.
Brinkmann graduated from Carlyle High School in 1977. He
received his associate’s degree from Kaskaskia College in 1979
and earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from the
University of Illinois in 1981.
Brinkmann and his wife, Jean, have one daughter and attend
Messiah Lutheran Church in Carlyle.
J. Larry Miller
District 17
J. Larry Miller of Thompsonville in Franklin County was
elected to the state board of directors in 2013 to represent District
17, which includes Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson,
Wabash, Wayne, and White counties. He serves on the National
Affairs & Marketing Committee.
Miller and his wife, Kaye, operate a corn, soybean, wheat and
beef cow farm with their son, Jerry.
He served on the Franklin County Economic Development
Council and was secretary-treasurer of his local property rights
association.
Miller received his bachelor’s degree in agriculture education
at Southern Illinois University in 1972. He is an Agriculture
Leaders of Tomorrow (ALOT) graduate.
Miller and his wife have three children, Jerry, Jeff and Jenny.
They are members of the Immanuel Baptist Church in Franklin
County.
Jim Anderson
District 18
Jim Anderson of Thompsonville in Williamson County was
elected to the Illinois Farm Bureau board of directors in 2004
to represent District 18, which includes Alexander, Gallatin,
Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union,
and Williamson counties. He serves on the Member Services
& Public Relations Committee, the Rural Illinois Medical
Student Assistance Program (RIMSAP) Committee and on the
COUNTRY Trust Bank Board. He also represents IFB on the
Illinois Coal Association Board and is the interlocking member on
the GROWMARK Board.
Anderson operates a farm in Williamson County raising corn
and soybeans.
Anderson served as president of the Williamson County Farm
Bureau from 1993 to 2004 and served on his local FS board for
15 years. He served as a director on the Interstate Producers
Livestock Association board from 1994 to 2000 and as president
from 2000 to 2001.
Anderson graduated from Johnston City High School.
He and his wife, LuAnn, have three children, six
grandchildren, and are members of the Freewill Baptist Church in
Johnston City.
Jared Finegan
Chairman
Young Leader Committee
Jared Finegan of Ashkum in Iroquois County was elected
chairman of the IFB State Young Leader Committee in December
of 2013. He serves as an advisory member to the IFB Board of
Directors.
Finegan, in partnership with his parents and brother, operates a
2,200 acre farm raising corn and soybeans.
He served as chairman of the Ford-Iroquois Young Leader
Committee from 2005 to 2010 and served on the State Committee
since then. Finegan is an Ashkum township trustee.
Finegan received a associate’s degree in ag production from
Joliet Junior College in 2003.
Mike Roegge
President
Illinois Extension
Agricultural Association
Mike Roegge has been with the University of Illinois
Extension for more than 34 years. Prior to becoming president of
the Illinois Extension Agricultural Association, he served for three
years as Local Foods Systems/Small Farms Educator.
Roegge also served as a Crop Systems Educator where he
spent his entire career in Western Illinois, having worked in
Adams, Brown, Hancock, Monroe, Pike and Schuyler counties.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture education from
Southern Illinois University and a master’s degree in agronomy
from the University of Illinois.
Roegge is a past board member of the Quincy Area
Chamber of Commerce and the John Wood Community College
Horticulture Advisory Board. He currently is a member of the
Chamber Ag committee and is treasurer of the Tri-State Local
Foods Network. He is a member of the National Association of
County Agricultural Agents (NACAA).
His professional awards include the University of Illinois
Extension Outstanding Program-Team Award, Illinois C-FAR
Outstanding and Innovative Team Research and Outreach,
NACAA Distinguished Service Award and the Association of
Illinois Soil and Water Conservation District Distinguished Merit
Award.