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 The board is comprised of 12 farmer directors elected by the
association stockholders and two outside directors appointed by the
board.
Miller has been a Farm Credit director since 1997. A
third-generation farmer, he grows corn and soybeans on farms in
Logan and Macon counties. He also serves as a director for the
Farmers Grain Company of Central Illinois and as a park commissioner
for the Chestnut-Beason Park District. He is a member of the Macon
County Farm Bureau and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Mount
Pulaski.
He earned a degree in agricultural economics and agronomy
from Western Illinois University.
Mark and his wife, Kathy, have two grown children, Andrew and
Elizabeth.
Farm Credit Services of Illinois is a farmer-owned and directed
agricultural lending cooperative that serves 8,000 farm families,
agribusinesses and rural landowners in the southern 60 counties of
Illinois by providing competitive financing and delivering crop
insurance expertise. The association manages a $2.8 billion loan
portfolio, provides crop insurance on more than 1.75 million acres
and employs 190 staff based in 20 different branch offices and in
the Mahomet corporate office.
The mission of the U.S. Farm
Credit System is to provide a stable and dependable source of
financial capital and financial services to agriculture and rural
America.
[Text from file received from
Farm Credit Services of Illinois] |
Farm Credit elects Miller as new board chair
