Jim Holte has been reelected to a fourth one-year term as the president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation and Rural Mutual Insurance Company. Holte raises beef cattle and grows corn, soybeans and alfalfa on 460 acres of land near Elk Mound in Dunn County.
Holte was first elected to the WFBF Board of Directors in 1995 to represent District 9 on the board. District 9 represents the Superior Shores, Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Pierce, Polk, Rusk, Sawyer and St. Croix county Farm Bureaus. In January he was elected to a one-year term on the American Farm Bureau Federation’s board of directors.
Holte previously served as WFBF’s representative to the Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium board. He also chaired the Wisconsin Livestock Siting Review board. Holte is a graduate of the Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program. He served as a school board member in Elk Mound, as board member for GROWMARK, Inc., a citizen board member for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and president of the Wisconsin Beef Council.
A 1975 graduate of UW-River Falls, Holte and his wife, Gayle, have two children and four grandchildren.
Richard Gorder, a dairy farmer from Mineral Point in Iowa County, was reelected to a one-year term as vice president. He also was reelected to a three-year term representing District 3 (Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Lafayette, Richland and Vernon counties) on the WFBF board of directors.
Dave Daniels of Union Grove in Kenosha County was reelected to a three-year term on the board representing District 1 (Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington and Waukesha counties).
Kevin Krentz of Berlin in Waushara County was reelected to a three-year term on the board representing District 5 (Adams, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Juneau, Marquette, Waushara and Winnebago counties).
Nine of the 11 members of the WFBF board of directors are farmers elected in each of Farm Bureau’s nine districts. These nine individuals also make up the board of directors for the Rural Mutual Insurance Company. Rounding out the WFBF’s board are the chairs of WFBF’s Young Farmer and Agriculturist Committee and WFBF’s Women’s Committee, both of which serve a one-year term on the board.
Delegates at the WFBF Annual Meeting approved a bylaw change to replace the state Women’s Committee with a state Promotion and Education Committee.
Rosalie Geiger of Reedsville in Manitowoc County was elected to a one-year term as the chair of the newly formed Promotion and Education Committee. Geiger served as chair of the state Women’s Committee last year.
Derek Orth of Stitzer in Grant County was elected to a one-year term as chair of the Young Farmer and Agriculturist Committee. He succeeds Andrea Brossard of Dodge County as YFA Chair.
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation Board Directors who were not up for reelection are: Arch Morton, Jr., of Janesville in Rock County, Joe Bragger of Independence in Buffalo County, Rosie Lisowe of Chilton in Calumet County, Wayne Staidl of Peshtigo in Marinette County and Don Radtke of Merrill in Lincoln County.
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