Illinois Department of Agriculture State Commodity Board election results announced

[July 24, 2021]     The Illinois Department of Agriculture has announced the winners of three commodity board elections. Producers voted July 7 to select members of the Illinois Corn Marketing Board, the Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board and the Illinois Sheep and Wool Marketing Board. Winners will serve three-year terms.

Winner names and the districts they will represent are as follows:

ILLINOIS CORN MARKETING BOARD

District 2
Carroll, JoDaviess, Ogle, Stephenson,and Winnebago counties
Candidate Jon Rosenstiel of Pearl City


District 5
Grundy, Kankakee, LaSalle and Livingston counties
Art Bunting of Dwight

District 8
Cass, Fulton, Logan, Mason, Menard,
Peoria, and Tazewell counties
Ross E. Pauli of Edwards

District 11
Christian, Effingham, Fayette,
Montgomery and Shelby Counties
Wayne Rosenthal of Morrisonville

District 14
Bond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe,
St. Clair and Washington counties
Dale Handrich of Waterloo

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ILLINOIS SOYBEAN PROGRAM OPERATING BOARD

District 2
Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee,
Lake, McHenry and Will counties
Candidate Steve Pitstick of Maple Park

District 10
Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie,
Shelby counties
Elliott Uphoff, Shelbyville

District 11
Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar,
Piatt
Matthew J Murray, Paxton

District 14
Clark, Crawford, Cumberland,
Effingham, Jasper
L. Brad Daughtery, West Union

District 16
Clay, Edwards, Lawrence, Richland,
Wabash, Wayne, White
Brain H. Atteberry, Carmi

District 17
Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Randolph,
Washington
Nick Harre, Nashville


SHEEP AND WOOL MARKETING BOARD

District 2
Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland,
Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois,
Kankakee, Kendall, Livingston, Piatt
Vermilion, Will
To be appointed

District 5
Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Morgan, Pike,
Schuyler, Scott
To be appointed

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