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Washington—Members of the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) elected 15 industry leaders to serve on its 60-member Board of Directors during the organization’s 114th annual convention this month.

Established in 1896, the NGFA consists of more than 1,000-member companies from all sectors of the grain elevator, feed and feed ingredient, integrated livestock and poultry, grain processing, biofuels and exporting business that operate about 6,000 facilities nationwide and handle more than 70 percent of all U.S. grains and oilseeds.

Elected to three-year terms on the NGFA Board of Directors were: Martin J. Anderson, president, GrainStore Elevators, Galesburg, IL; Alan Brewer, vice president, North American health and nutrition, Evonick Degussa Corp., Kennesaw, GA; Paul DeBruce, chief executive officer, DeBruce Grain Inc., Kansas City, MO; Scott Dubbelde, general manager, Farmers Cooperative Elevator Co., Hanley Falls, MN; Ken Eckhardt, vice president, commodities and energy, Aventine Renewable Energy Inc., Pekin, IL; Joe Neal Hampton, president, Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association, Enid, OK; and Greg Konsor, general manager, grain operations, Gavilon Grain LLC, Omaha, NE.

Also elected to three-year terms on the NGFA Board were: Duane Madoerin, merchandising manager, Gold-Eagle Cooperative, Goldfield, Iowa; Scott Mills, vice president and feed grains manager, Lansing Trade Group LLC, Overland Park, KS; Robert Nawrot, general merchandiser, Central States Enterprises Inc., Heathrow, FL; Hugh Parker, director, commodities purchasing, Corn Products International Inc., Westchester, IL; Andrew Riffe, marketing manager, Stratford Grain Co., Stratford, Texas; John Ripple, general manager, Morrow County Grain Growers Inc., Lexington, OR; Jack Smit, vice president and general manager, agribusiness, Furst-McNess Co., Freeport, IL; and Randall Wuttke, vice president, Farm City Elevator Inc., Darien, WI.

Members of the NGFA’s Board of Directors subsequently elected 13 of its members to serve on the 18-member NGFA Executive Committee.

They are: Kevin Adams, president and chief executive officer, CGB Enterprises Inc., Mandeville, LA; Erik Anderson, president, Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Wilton, CT; Gary Beachner, chief executive officer and general manager, Beachner Grain Inc., St. Paul, KS; Rick Browne, senior vice president, grain, CHS Inc., St. Paul, MN; Rick Calhoun, vice president, Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain North America, Cargill Inc., Minneapolis, MN; Sharon Clark, vice president, transportation, Perdue AgriBusiness Inc., Salisbury, MD; Paul DeBruce, chief executive officer, DeBruce Grain Inc., Kansas City, MO; Scot Hillman, chief executive officer, J.D. Heiskell & Co., Tulare, CA; Craig Huss, vice president, transportation and grain, Archer Daniels Midland Co., Decatur, IL; Greg Konsor, general manager, grain operations, Gavilon Grain LLC, Omaha, NE; Steve Nail, president and chief executive officer, Farmers Grain Terminal Inc., Greenville, MS; Gary Olsen, group vice president, grain, Ag Processing Inc., Omaha, NE; and Eric Wilkey, president, Arizona Grain Inc., Casa Grande, AZ.

In addition, serving on the NGFA’s Executive Committee by virtue of their office are: NGFA Chairman Hal Reed, president, Grain and Ethanol Group, The Andersons Inc., Maumee, Ohio; First Vice Chairman David Hoogmoed, executive vice president, Land O’Lakes Inc., and chief operating officer for feed for the company’s Land O’Lakes Purina Feed LLC business unit, Shoreview, MN; Second Vice Chairman Bailey Ragan, vice president and general manager, Bunge Grain, Bunge North America, St. Louis, MO; Immediate Past Chairman Tom Coyle, general manager, Nidera North American Grain and Oilseeds, Chicago, IL; and NGFA President Kendell W. Keith, Washington, D.C.

The NGFA’s membership encompasses all sectors of the industry, including country, terminal and export elevators; feed manufacturers; cash grain and feed merchants; end users of grain and grain products, including processors, flour millers, and livestock and poultry integrators; commodity futures brokers and commission merchants; and allied industries.

Canadian and Mexican firms also are NGFA members, and use its Trade Rules and Arbitration System by specific reference in their contracts.

The NGFA also consists of 35 affiliated state and regional grain and feed associations, as well as two international affiliated associations.

It has strategic alliances with the Pet Food Institute, and is co-located and has a joint operating and services agreement with the North American Export Grain Association.

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