OAK BROOK, Ill. – Three new directors have been elected to service on the Farm 

Foundation Board. They are Jason Brantley, vice president, John Deere; Krysta Harden, president and CEO, U.S. Dairy Export Council; and Erin Nazetta, director, Broadview Group Holdings. The election took place at the board’s June meeting.

Harden is a board member-at-large, and Brantley fills a seat dedicated to a member from the manufacturing industry. Nazetta’s seat is selected from Farm Foundation’s suite of Next Generation development programs. She participated in Farm Foundation’s 2021 YoungAgrifood Leader program.

“We are pleased to welcome these new members to the Farm Foundation Board,” said Dan Basse, chairman of the board. “Their expertise and perspective will be invaluable additions at a time of significant momentum and growth at Farm Foundation.”

Farm Foundation is an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture that leverages the power of collaboration between food and agricultural stakeholders to advance agriculture in positive ways. As a 501(c)(3) charity, the organization applies its non-partisan, objective approach to a suite of projects and programs aimed at addressing both emerging and persistent issues facing farmers and the wider industry.

Re-elected to serve additional terms on the board were Basse, of AgResource Company; Kristin Kroepfl, of Quaker North America, John Foltz, of The Ohio State University (retired); Robert Jones, of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Mike Torrey, of Torrey Associates.

The Farm Foundation board of directors is responsible for managing the affairs of Farm Foundation. Other members of the board are:

Cheri De Jong, vice chair, Natural Prairie Dairy and AgriVision Farm Management

Andrew LaVigne, treasurer, American Seed Trade Association

Shari Rogge-Fidler, ex officio director, president, Farm Foundation

Christine Hamilton, audit committee chair, Christiansen Land and Cattle

Jewel Bronaugh, former United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture

Angela Caddell, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad

Steve Coulter, Koch Agronomic Services

Michael Doane, The Nature Conservancy

George Hoffman, Restaurant Services Inc.

Mike Johanns, former USDA secretary

A.G. Kawamura, Orange County Produce

James (Jimmy) Kinder, Kinder Farms

Thayne Larson, Bestifor Farms

Cristina Rohr, S2G Ventures

Ryan Schohr, Schohr Ranch

Mary Snapp, Microsoft Philanthropies

Todd Van Hoose, Farm Credit Council