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Agri-Growth's dedicated staff manages all daily council operations, but receives direction and oversight from an elected Board of Directors. Select contract lobbyists and facilitators also conduct wide-ranging programs and activities for the council's benefit when needed.
Staff
Daryn McBeth
President
Tony Mondry
Program Manager Cory Bennett
Contract Lobbyist
Leslie Shuler Svacina
Communications Director
Board of Directors Officers
Chairman: Joe C. Swedberg, Vice President, Legislative Affairs and Marketing Services, Hormel Foods Corporation
Vice Chair: Kristin Weeks Duncanson, owner, Duncanson Growers
Treasurer: Mike Zumwinkle, Director, Government Relations, Cargill
Secretary: Jim Bareksten, Governmental Affairs Director, CHS Inc.
Immediate Past Chairman: Paul DeBriyn, President & CEO, AgStar Financial Services
Board Members
Allen J. Anderson: Retired, vice president, CHS Inc., and past Council chair
Mark Davis: CEO, Davisco Foods International, Inc.
Randall J. Doyal: CEO, Al-Corn Clean Fuel
Meg Freking: CFO, New Fashion Pork
Roger Gilland: Gilland Feedlot, Inc. and Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association
Mike Helgeson: CEO, Gold'n Plump Poultry
Gene Hugoson: Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Steven Krikava: Director, Government Relations, Land O' Lakes, Inc.
Jerry Larson: Owner, Larson Farms
Al Levine: Dean, CFANS- University of Minnesota
Pat Lunemann: Partner & General Manager, Twin Eagle Dairy; President,
Minnesota Milk Producers Association
Ron Offutt: CEO, R.D. Offutt Company
Adolph Ojard: CEO, Duluth Seaway Port Authority
Tom Rosen: CEO, Rosen's Diversified, Inc.
Nick Sinner: Executive Director, Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association
Dr. Michael Swanson: Agriculture Economist, Wells Fargo
Jim Winter: Vice President of North America Agri Business, ECOLAB |
