ANKENY – The Iowa Soybean Association Board of Directors will seat four new members during its September meeting, including the Midwest Farm Mom of the Year.
Stephanie Essick, who farms near Dickens, was recently elected as an At-Large director by soybean growers across Iowa’s nine crop districts.
Other newly elected directors include Chuck White of Spencer, District 1; Randy Souder of Rockwell City, District 4 and Morey Hill of Madrid, District 5. Lindsay Greiner of Keota, who was appointed by the board to finish the unexpired At-Large term of Jim Andrew of Jefferson, was re-elected.
Also re-elected were Wayne Fredericks of Osage for a third term in District 2 and Mark Jackson of Rose Hill for a second term in District 9.
Randy Van Kooten of Lynnville is retiring from the board after serving nine years.
“I want to thank all our retiring members for their dedication to ISA,” said Tom Oswald, ISA president-elect. “Though we will miss our retiring directors, I welcome the newly elected board members and the fresh perspectives they bring as we celebrate ISA’s 50th anniversary and embark into the next 50 years.”
Other district directors include District 4; Rolland Schnell of Newton; current ISA President Brian Kemp of Sibley, from District 1; Dean Coleman of Humboldt, District 2; Scott McGregor of Nashua and Dennis Lindsay of Masonville, District 3; Sheila Hebenstreit of Jefferson, from District 5; Ed Ulch of Solon and Benjamin Schmidt of Iowa City, District 6; Jeff Jorgensen of Sidney and Bill Shipley of Nodaway, District 7; Cliff Mulder of Pella, District 8; John Heisdorffer of Keota, District 9; Tom Oswald of Cleghorn and Ron Heck of Perry are At-Large directors.