LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Farm Credit Mid-America, a $22 billion financial services cooperative serving farmers, agribusinesses and rural residents in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, has appointed two new members to the Association’s Board of Directors. Each new director will serve a four-year term, beginning on April 1.
The new directors are Shari Rogge-Fidler from Bloomington, Ind., and Steve Bush from Owensboro, Ky.
Rogge-Fidler is the president of Cambium Strategies, LLC, a business strategy consulting organization for food and agribusiness. After growing up on a farm, Rogge-Fidler earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School. In 2000, Rogge-Fidler took over operations of her fifth-generation family farm while serving as the co-director and adjunct professor of the Consulting Academy at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She then founded Cambium Strategies, where she currently leads business development and strategy projects for her clients.
Bush is the chief financial officer of Whitestone Feeds, LLC, a livestock feed manufacturing and sales company with $15 million in annual sales, and serves the primary leadership role in new business development for the organization. Bush previously served as the director of business development for Archer Daniels Midland, a Fortune 50 agricultural commodities company, and as the CEO of Lakeland Nutrition Group, LLC.
“Our appointed directors are well-versed in both agriculture and finance, and their knowledge and experience will be a tremendous contribution to the Board,” said Andrew Wilson, Farm Credit Mid-America board chair and a grain and livestock farmer from Somerset, Ohio. “We look forward to their contributions to the Association and helping prepare our customers for the years ahead.
— Farm Credit Mid-America