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CHS, Inc. Elects Board of Directors, Officers
USAgNet - 12/06/2016

The producer- and member-cooperative owners of CHS Inc. elected a Wisconsin farmer to a three-year term on the company's board of directors and re-elected four other producers to new three-year terms as directors of the nation's leading farmer-owned cooperative and global energy, grains and foods company. The elections took place during the 2016 CHS Annual Meeting held Dec. 2 in Minneapolis.

Newly elected director Mark Farrell of Cross Plains, Wis., succeeds Robert Bass who retired after 22 years. Farrell has served as a director for what is now Premier Cooperative of Mt. Horeb, Wis., since 1992, including four years as chairman.

With his brother and son, he operates a 4,000-acre corn, wheat and soybean farm, along with a 6,000-head contract hog finishing operation. Farrell completed the short-course in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Re-elected to the CHS Board were Dennis Carlson, Mandan, N.D.; Alan Holm, Sleepy Eye, Minn.; Randy Knecht, Houghton, S.D., and Steve Riegel, Ford, Kan.

Following the annual meeting, the CHS Board elected David Bielenberg of Silverton, Ore., to a fifth one-year term as chairman.

Other directors selected as officers for 2017 were Daniel Schurr, LeClaire, Iowa, as first vice chairman; David Johnsrud, Starbuck, Minn., as secretary-treasurer; C.J. Blew, Castleton, Kan., second vice chairman, and Don Anthony, Lexington, Neb., as assistant secretary-treasurer.


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