Minnesota Farmer Joins CHS Board; Oregon Producer Re-elected Chairman

09 Dec 2014 --- Perry Meyer of New Ulm, Minn., has been elected to a three-year term on the board of CHS Inc., the nation's leading farmer-owned cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company.

Minnesota delegates elected Meyer to the 17-member board at the recent CHS Annual Meeting on Dec. 5, 2014. He succeeds Jerry Hasnedl of St. Hilaire, Minn., who retired after 19 years. During its yearly reorganization session following the annual meeting, board members re-elected David Bielenberg of Silverton, Ore., to his third one-year term as chairman.

Meyer, 60, brings to the CHS Board more than three decades of cooperative and agricultural leadership experience. Along with his daughter and son-in-law, he operates a 2,500 acre corn and soybean farm and finishes12,000 hogs annually. He currently serves as president of Heartland Corn Products Cooperative, a board on which he has served since 1992, and has been president of Steamboat Pork Cooperative since 1998. He also has served as a member of the NU-Telecom board since 1995 and is a past director of the former CHS Oilseed Defined Investor board. Meyer also is a member of and active in a broad range of cooperative, agricultural, local government, school and church organizations.

He is a 1974 graduate of Alexandria Technical School with a degree in agricultural mechanics. He attended the CHS New Leaders Forum and is a graduate of the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership program.

Also re-elected to one-year CHS Board leadership terms were:
- Dennis Carlson, Bismarck, N.D., as first vice chairman
- Dan Schurr, LeClaire, Iowa, as secretary-treasurer
- Steve Fritel, Rugby, N.D., as second vice chairman
- Curt Eischens, Minneota, Minn., as assistant secretary-treasurer

Delegates also re-elected Eischens, Schurr, Jon Erickson, Minot, N.D.; Ed Malesich, Dillon, Mont.; Greg Kruger, Eleva, Wis., and C.J. Blew, Castleton, Kan., to three-year terms on the CHS Board.