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Mr. Hall is Chairman of the Cooperative board. He also serves as an elder of his local church and on the Morrill County Planning Commission. He has been farming for a total of twenty-five years, twenty-four of which he has farmed sugar beets.

Mr. Rodriguez is Vice-Chairman of the Cooperative Board. He is also President of the Board of Commissioners of the Heart Mountain Irrigation District. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Montana State University-Billings. He has been raising sugar beets for 29 years.

Mr. Amen has served as the President of the Colorado Sugarbeet Growers Association. He is currently serving as the President of the Weld Re-3(J) School Board and financial chairman of his church. He has been farming sugar beets for approximately 32 years.

Mr. Gabel is the past President of the Mountain States Beet Growers Association of Montana and is currently serving as Vice President for the Canyon Creek Ditch Company. He has been farming sugar beets for approximately 33 years.

Mr. Nedens is the past President of Big Horn County Sugarbeet Growers Association. He is a member of the Two Leggins Water Users Association Board, and serves on the Big Horn Soil Conservation Board. Mr. Nedens has been farming sugar beets since 1977.

Mr. Martens served 23 years as a board member of the Big Horn Basin Beet Growers Association. He has also served for 27 years on the board of the Shoshone Conservation District, of which he has been Chairman for the past 21 years. He currently serves on the advisory board for the University of Wyoming Experiment Station in Powell, Wyoming. Mr. Martens recently retired from the Great Western and Western Growers Research Committee after serving for 18 years on the committee and for 10 years as co-chairman . Mr. Martens has been farming sugar beets for 48 years.

Mr. Jensen is a second generation beet grower. He and his family operate a diversified row crop, dryland, and livestock operation near Hemingford, Nebraska raising beets, corn, beans, wheat, sunflowers, and millet. He has served as a director on the Nebraska Non-stock Growers Association. Tom was involved in the research committee, serving as a director for two years and is currently serving as a director on the Western Sugar Board.

Mr. Chapman began his farming career in 1969 after serving four years in the US Navy. with sugar beets a big part of his operation. He is now farming in partnership with his son Stuart. Mr. Chapman has served on the board of the Colorado Corn Administrative Committee, as president of the local sugarbeet growers association , and is a retired volunteer fireman.

Mr. McClung is a fourth generation beet grower from western Nebraska. Steve and his family are partners in a diversified farming operating which includes irrigated row crop, dry land crops, and a cow / calf livestock operation. Steve served as a director on the NebCo Beet Growers Association for 8 years and also represented NebCo as their delegate to the research committee meetings. Steve became a director on the Western Sugar Cooperative board in early 2007.