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2012-2013 OABA Board Members Announced
New Board Members and Officers Take Effect May 1st
Earlier this week, appointed members of the Ohio AgriBusiness Association (OABA) Board of Directors counted ballots for the election of Directors for the Ohio AgriBusiness Association. We had an exceptionally good slate of nominees this year and many of the races were very close!
The results in each category are as follows:
- Grain: Paul Riehm with Bunge North America
- Seed: Nathan Louiso with AgriGold Hybrids
- Member-At-Large: Jim Collins with GVM West
- Member-At-Large: Doug Busdeker with The Andersons, Inc.
These new members will take effect May 1, along with the following 2012-2013 officer changes:
- Chairwoman: Jill Boyd with Morral Companies, LLC
- Vice Chairman: Mark Sunderman with Deshler Farmers Elevator Company
- Past Chairman: Herb Mayer with Trupointe Cooperative, Inc.
Below is a full list of the 2012-2013 OABA Board of Directors:
- David C. Barrett with Barrett, Easterday, Cunningham & Eselgroth LLP
- Jill Boyd with Morral Companies, LLC, representing the fertilizer industry
- Walter Burd with Town & Country Co-op Inc., representing the agrichemical industry
- David Case with Bayer CropScience, representing the seed industry
- Doug Busdeker with The Andersons, Inc.
- Jim Collins with GVM West
- Jack Heim with Menncograin, representing the grain industry
- Nathan Louiso with AgriGold Hybrids, representing the seed industry
- Herb Mayer with Trupointe Cooperative, Inc.
- Paul Riehm with Bunge North America, representing the grain industry
- Mark Sunderman with Deshler Farmers Elevator Company, representing the fertilizer industry
- Andy Swerlein with Luckey Farmers, Inc., representing the feed industry
- Dave Wurm with Rosen’s Inc., representing the agrichemical industry
- John Ward with ABIS/JH Ward Agency
- Thomas Zitter with Big K Mills, Inc., representing the feed industry
Thank you to all of the OABA Board members – past and present – for your continued commitment to the association and its members!

