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Scottsdale, AZ—The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) has elected as its chairman Thomas Coyle, general manager of Chicago & Illinois River Marketing LLC, Chicago, IL.

During its 112th annual convention here March 26-28, the 900-member-company organization comprised of grain elevators, feed and feed ingredient manufacturers, livestock and poultry integrators, grain processors, exporters and biofuel producers also elected Hal Reed, president of the Grain and Ethanol Group at The Andersons Inc., Maumee, OH, as its first vice chairman.

Meanwhile, David R. Hoogmoed, vice president, feed for Land O’Lakes Purina Feed LLC, Shoreview, MN, was elected as NGFA’s new second vice chairman.

NGFA-member companies operate about 6,000 facilities that handle more than 70 percent of all U.S. grains and oilseeds.

Coyle is the 62nd industry leader to serve at the helm of the NGFA.

He also serves on the NGFA’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

Coyle previously served two-year terms as first and second vice chairman, respectively.

From 1998-2006, he served as chairman of the NGFA’s Risk Management Committee, which represents the interests of commercial hedgers and users of the nation’s futures markets to offset risk when buying and selling grain, oilseeds and grain products.

He also has served as an arbitrator within the NGFA’s unique alternative-dispute resolution system.

Chicago & Illinois River Marketing LLC, for which Coyle serves as general manager, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nidera Holdings B.V. of The Netherlands.

In this capacity, Coyle oversees the company’s grain origination and marketing, as well as the operations of its two export facilities located in Illinois and Wisconsin, one of which is the largest delivery warehouse for CBOT futures contracts.

Nidera, established in 1920, is a leading international company serving customers in agro and bioenergy markets around the world.

It is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with principal subsidiaries located across Europe and the Former Soviet Union, as well as Singapore and the United States.

In addition, in Argentina, Nidera operates a network of export grain elevators and processing plants, and is extensively involved in agricultural inputs, such as seed, crop nutrition and crop-protection products.

Coyle began his grain industry career with the former Continental Grain Co. in 1976, where he eventually became vice president of origination for its North American Grain Division in Chicago.

During his career with Continental Grain, he also worked as a facility manager, regional merchandiser, soybean trading manager, regional manager (in Minneapolis, Minn.), assistant general manager (Kansas City, Mo.), and as vice president of marketing and business development.

He is a graduate of DePaul University in Chicago, and received his masters in business administration from The University of Dayton (Ohio).

Reed, elected as the NGFA’s new first vice chairman, heads the Grain and Ethanol Group at The Andersons Inc. (ANDE), a diversified company founded in 1947.

As such, he oversees the operations of 13 grain elevators with a combined storage capacity exceeding 85 million bushels.

The Andersons’ grain facilities handle more than 170 million bushels annually, primarily in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, and merchandises substantial additional quantities of grains and oilseeds, primarily in the Eastern Corn Belt.

In addition to its Grain Division, Reed oversees The Andersons’ investments in three ethanol plant LLCs (one each in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio), to which The Andersons provide management, operations and merchandising services.

He also oversees The Andersons’ investment in Lansing Trade Group LLC.

With the NGFA, Reed previously served a two-year term as second vice chairman, and also serves as a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

He began his career at The Andersons in January 1980 as a certified public accountant.

He subsequently held various accounting, operational and marketing positions within the company’s Grain Division.

He was named vice president and general manager of the Grain Division in 1998, and became division president in January 2001.

He became president of the company’s Grain and Ethanol Group in 2006.

An Ohio native, Reed is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with an undergraduate degree in accounting.

He received his masters in finance from The University of Toledo.

He is active in the community, serving on several business and philanthropic boards.

Hoogmoed, elected NGFA’s new second vice chairman, is a 28-year veteran of the feed industry.

As feed vice president for Land O’Lakes Purina Feed LLC, he leads the company’s national sales organization and is responsible for sales administration, training and strategic positioning.

He also is responsible for the cooperative’s retail development team and feed solutions group, the latter of which serves both private label and non-traditional distribution channels.

He began his career with Ralston Purina Co., St. Louis, Mo., and later served in top management with Purina Mills Inc. prior to its acquisition by Land O’Lakes in 2001.

His previous responsibilities included serving as general manager, regional operations.

He also served within the leadership of Purina’s research/marketing and species business unit.

He is a graduate of Rutgers University, with an undergraduate degree in agricultural economics.

With the NGFA, Hoogmoed also serves as chairman of the Feed and Animal Agriculture Strategic Issues Committee, a unique forum in which senior-level managers from feed, feed ingredient and integrated livestock and poultry operations identify and develop strategies to address major domestic and international developments affecting the feed sector.

The committee also interacts with animal agriculture and species organizations to maintain and enhance the economic viability of U.S. animal agriculture production.

And it interfaces with the grocery and retail food industry, which influences feed and food-animal production practices.

Hoogmoed also is a member of the NGFA’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

Kendell W. Keith serves as the NGFA’s president, the association’s top executive staff officer.

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