SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — 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, Winnebago counties; Jon Rosenstiel, Pearl City
- District 5: Grundy, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston counties; Art Bunting, Dwight
- District 8: Cass, Fulton, Logan, Mason, Menard, Peoria, Tazewell counties; Ross E. Pauli, Edwards
- District 11: Christian, Effingham, Fayette, Montgomery, Shelby counties; Wayne Rosenthal, Morrisonville
- District 14: Bond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, St. Clair, Washington counties; Dale Handrich, Waterloo
ILLINOIS SOYBEAN PROGRAM OPERATING BOARD
- District 2: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, McHenry, Will counties; Steve Pitstick, Maple Park
- District 10: Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie, Shelby counties; Elliott Uphoff, Shelbyville
- District 11: Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Piatt counties; Matthew J Murray, Paxton
- District 14: Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper counties; L. Brad Daughtery, West Union
- District 16: Clay, Edwards, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, Wayne, White counties; Brain H. Atteberry, Carmi
- District 17: Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Randolph, Washington counties; 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 counties; To be appointed
- District 5: Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Morgan, Pike, Schuyler, Scott counties; To be appointed
— Illinois Department of Agriculture
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