Members elect five directors to serve on the cooperative’s board during 2024 annual meeting.
December 11, 2024
Owners of CHS, the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperative and global agribusiness, elected five board members to three-year terms during the cooperative’s 2024 annual meeting held Dec. 5-6 in Minneapolis, Minn.
Trent Sherven was elected to the CHS board of directors to represent owners in Region 3 (North Dakota). Sherven raises barley, canola, durum, soybeans, spring and winter wheat and sunflowers with his family near Ryder, N.D.
Chris Edgington was also elected to the CHS board of directors to represent Region 7 (Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee). Edgington raises corn, soybeans and cattle with his family near St. Ansgar, Iowa.
David Johnsrud from Region 1 and Steve Fritel from Region 3 retired from the board at the conclusion of the annual meeting. Amendments to the CHS Bylaws approved by members in December 2023 added a director seat to Region 7 (filled by Edgington) and removed a seat from Region 1.
In addition to the new members joining the board, the following were re-elected to the CHS board of directors:
David Kayser, who raises corn, soybeans, hay and cattle with his family near Alexandria, S.D., and represents Region 4 (South Dakota).
Russ Kehl, who raises potatoes and dry edible beans with his family near Quincy, Wash., and represents Region 6 (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Alaska).
David Beckman, who raises corn, soybeans and hogs with his family near Elgin, Neb., and represents Region 8 (Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas).
The following CHS board members were elected to one-year officer terms:
Dan Schurr, LeClaire, Iowa, re-elected chair.
C.J. Blew, Castleton, Kan., re-elected first vice chair.
Scott Cordes, Wanamingo, Minn., re-elected second vice chair.
Russell Kehl, Quincy, Wash., re-elected secretary-treasurer.
Al Holm, Sleepy Eye, Minn., re-elected assistant secretary-treasurer.
CHS Inc. creates connections to empower agriculture. As a leading global agribusiness and the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the U.S., CHS serves customers in 65 countries and employs approximately 10,000 people worldwide, providing critical crop inputs, market access and risk management services that help farmers feed the world. The co-op has diversified agronomy, grains, foods and energy businesses and is committed to reducing the impact on the planet, finding and developing new solutions in agriculture and energy and investing in ways to build a better future for its owners, customers, employees and communities.
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